Murder Story of Novaya Karakuba Jews at the Animal Burial Ground in Novaya Karakuba

In the fall of 1941, I do not remember the exact date, some civilian passersby were shot at our Telman collective farm; they were murdered and thrown into a pit at the cattle cemetery. Some other people were murdered there in 1942.

At the Telman collective farm in the Novaya Karakuba rural council, all civilians – residents of other counties and districts who passed by the farmstead [sic] – were detained and imprisoned in the basement, upon the initiative of the community headman…, the police chief …, and a policeman…, all of them local Germans. Their [the civilians'] possessions were confiscated, and they were brutally shot dead and buried at the cattle cemetery. Additionally, women, children, and elderly people of Jewish origin were brought to the same cemetery from other villages and from the nearby Novozlatopol County, and brutally shot there. In this way, some 120 Soviet civilians were shot and buried at the cattle cemetery from October 1941 to August 1942.

In November 1941, I do not remember the exact date, some civilians passing by our Telman collective farm were murdered at the cattle cemetery. They had come there to barter their possessions for food; most of them were Jews. Some other civilians were murdered there in 1942.… I cannot tell you exactly how many people were murdered there, but [I think] there were about 120.