Murder Story of Mikhaylovskoye Jews at the Mikhaylovskoye Cemetery

... Based on the investigation of the Commission, here follows a report about what took place during the German occupation of the village of Mikhaylovskoye, under the leadership of the German commander Brand. [The] punitive squad had forty members, [and] in August 1942 they arrested thirteen civilian evacuees, including three elderly people, seven women, and three nursing infants. Their belongings were stolen, and they were taken to a pasture next to the cemetery and brutally shot. Their bodies were not buried, and they lay there for ten days, being torn apart by dogs. This was witnessed by the local residents Pavel Karpovich Glosunov, Iakov Fedorovich Revtov, and Ivan Gerasimovich Khoroshilov....

... In September 1942, upon the orders of the German commander Brand and his accomplice, police chief Ishkov, the heavily armed German soldiers launched brutal reprisals against the civilian population. They beat up innocent citizens.… The Jews living at the Russkiy farmstead, who had been evacuated from Ukraine, were singled out for particularly brutal treatment. They were arrested and taken to the Gestapo headquarters in the village of Mikhailovka [Mikhaylovskoye]. According to the investigation and the eyewitness reports, sixteen people were arrested, taken to the cemetery, and shot....