Murder Story of Novo-Troitskoye Jews at the Novy Trud Collective Farm

The Hitlerite murderers began with an order issued on September 25, 1942 and signed by the commander, Captain Fenistlin, according to which all citizens of Jewish nationality had to gather, supposedly in order to be sent to work in other counties. When 240 people had assembled on the premises of the “Stavropolstroy” company, they were cordoned off by the police and the [German] army, and held there without food or water for almost two days, being tortured by the military personnel. On September 27, they were loaded onto trucks to be transported away. At this moment, the assembled [Jews] realized that they were going to be taken to an execution, and began to scream and wail. Then, the screaming and wailing women and children were beaten with rifle butts. The victims were beaten and forced to enter the vehicles, and were then driven to the area of the Novy Trud collective farm, where the 240 innocent citizens were tortured and forced to strip naked. They were then shot dead with machine guns. The children were poisoned. The bodies of the shot adults and the poisoned children were thrown into a pit and covered with a thin layer of soil. Over the next several days, dogs tore the bodies of the victims apart. Some fifteen days later, the Hitlerite cannibals killed a second group of Jews, numbering 319 people. With the assistance of the soldiers, this group was forced to go in the direction of the Gestapo headquarters in Novo-Aleksandrovskoye and Izobilnoye. According to the witness testimonies, they were shot dead there.