Murder story of Gorlovka Jews in the Kirpichnaya Mine

On December 6, 1941, Yudkin, a resident of the town of Gorlovka – who, as far as I know, worked as a butcher at a collective farm shop – was brought to the same prison cell where I was. On December 7, 1941, Yudkin, along with three other cellmates of mine who were unknown to me, was summoned before the police chief […]. Afterward, I and three other inmates were given picks and shovels, while Yudkin and the three individuals were removed from the police chief's office. All of us were taken to the Kirpichnaya [sic] mine, where the police chief […] read out Yudkin's "guilty" verdict, in which the latter was accused of robbing the collective farmers. The three others were not given any verdict. Two German gendarmes opened fire. They forced [the victims] to kneel facing them, and then shot them with rifles, aiming straight at the chest. Afterward, the German gendarmes approached the prone victims and shot them once more in the head with a revolver. The shootings were carried out separately, which means that the Jews and the Christians were shot at two different locations.

Around December 1941, I saw Yudkin's Jewish family; they passed me by; I also saw Kriminchutyskiy and his wife and two young children; [all of them] were taken away to be shot. I saw a great number of such families, but I can no longer recall their last names. During the shooting, the executioners forced the victims to strip naked and [unclear]. Upon the arrival of the German occupiers, I, together with five other Soviet civilians, witnessed some of the shootings, but later they began to carry out the shootings during the night.