Murder Story of Zatishnoye Jews in the Barn in the Zatishnoye Area

After the German occupiers had come to Zatishnoye in October 1941, they carried out a shooting of the Jewish population. I personally saw the murdered Jews in the horse stable; there were children, women, and elderly people [among the victims]. The Germans forced us to bury them in a pit in the vegetable garden. Seventy-two local Jews were murdered, along with twenty-three Jews from elsewhere. Also, it is true that the Germans shot the Jews at their places of residence, and then took their bodies to the area of the vegetable gardens for burial. I was there, and I was forced to bury the Jews. They had been shot with submachine guns.

After the German occupiers had entered the village of Zatishnoye on October 12, 1941, I personally saw two soldiers from a German punitive squad shoot many families of Jewish origin in a barn near the former hospital building. The Jews had been herded from their homes into the barn, and the German soldiers murdered them with submachine guns. [The victims] were children ranging from infants to teenagers, as well as elderly people. I witnessed the execution of those Jews; they were crying and begging the killers to spare them, but were shot. On the next day, October [originally November] 13, the Germans carried out another shooting in the barn, [and the Jewish victims included] children, teenagers, women, and elderly people. The shootings took place during the daytime. I buried [the victims] in the vegetable gardens. A total of 95 people were shot. This is all I know about the atrocities committed by the Germans against the Jewish population.