Murder Story of Moskovskoye Jews in the Anti-Tank Trench in the Moskovskoye Area

At 10 AM on August 29, 1942, three German officers wearing the uniforms of a punitive squad entered the village of Moskovskoye with their vehicles. At the order of their commander, Erms, and his accomplices, Ljamchin and Ivan Ivanovich Vorokikov, a total of about 118 Soviet citizens were rounded up. Among them, there were 26 children below the age of 16, some as young as toddlers. They were all taken to an anti-tank trench five kilometers from the village, and were shot there. According to eyewitness accounts, the victims were divided into groups of five and led to the killing site. A German driver, who had accompanied the German officers, carried out the execution. The other (victims) had to wait their turn. The children were killed by poisoning, with the killers holding a strange poison under their noses. 94 of the 118 victims had resided in the area of the village of Moskovskoye, while the remaining 24 had been brought there from elsewhere.