Murder story of Maryinskaya Jews in the Marinskaya Area

During the temporary occupation of the village, in August-December 1942, the German-Fascist occupiers – under the leadership and with the direct participation of a punitive squad of the Gestapo (which was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Haider, Lieutenant-Colonel Kover, and Lieutenant-Colonel Oetinger; and which consisted of the following collaborationist policemen: G. T. Kusovlev, V. I. Karpenko, V. G. Karnaukhov, M. I. Esko, I. V. Margashev – as well as A. A. Danilov, a returning German émigré) – brutally tortured and murdered 63 innocent, peaceful civilians in the village of Marinskaya. The German monsters forced their victims out of the village, led them 8-12 kilometers away, and then tortured and shot them. Three of the civilians were separated from the rest and taken to the town of Georgiyevsk, where they were shot. Their bodies were later found and identified, together with those of the other local victims, by the Commission in Georgiyevsk. [...] Relatives and friends have been able to identify the bodies of the following victims: [...] 20. Kats, Evgeniya Abramovna, 85 years old, an employee 21. Kats, Reveka Moiseyevna, 70 years old, an employee