Murder story of Blagodatnoye Jews in the Blagodatnoye Fire Station Courtyard

In November 1 (or) 2, 1942 it was ordered to the Jews to wear an armband with a spectrogram on it. No Jew could went to the street without the armband with the star on these days. In addition, it was often so, that the police went into to the flats of the Jews stole their belongings and checked, if the Jews were wearing the Star. On November 06, 1942, the Gestapo arrived into the village Blagodatnoye with several vehicles, one of the vehicles was dark and completely sealed, and it was a soul smother. The elderly announced in that four families from the age of a toddler to elderly people had to attend with their things, at 12 o’clock at the yard of the yard of the firefighter unit. Some Jewish families attended, their things was taken, and some elderly Jews were taken with horse carts to the yard. … After the Jews entered the yard, the Germans took their belongings away, but they had to enter the yard. Some youngsters could flee, but they were found and taken to chiefs of the collective farms and they took them to the designated spot in Blagodatnoye, and the kept an eye on them. It was the November 06, 1942, when the Germans hunted all the Jews, from the toddler to the elder, every one of them was taken to the garage of the firefighter unit. One family could flee. On November 07, approximately at seven o’clock, the Germans ordered that the Jews had to undress naked and to enter a gas wagon. … After the doors were closed, the engine was started, it was on high gear and strong, it meant the death, because the tube with the waste gases went directly in the stowage. There were also children form the age of three weeks, who were killed by waste gases, approximately they died in the time between three to five minutes. Befor that 10 to 16 Jews were taken by vehicles to dig a grave for themselves, for their children, their women and mothers and fathers. By some details, all together 130 people were murdered by the German villains and the Russian butchers, [by] the police and the patrons. [They] were killed on November 07, 1942.