Murder Story of Avdeyevka Pervaya Jews at the Horse Burial Ground in Avdeyevka Pervaya

The commission for the exhumation of shot Soviet civilians was able to discover [the bodies of] 113 people, who had been brutally tortured to death by the Fascist fiends. All 113 people were buried at the horse cemetery.… In January 1942, twenty-seven Jews were shot. There were children aged two, eight, and ten among them, while the rest [of the victims] were adults. During the exhumation, a two-year-old child held by his mother was found. The Commission states he was buried alive.

On January 20, 1942, the head of the village office… drew up a list of all the Jewish families: Abram Mordkovich, his sister Lyubov Mordkovich, Genya Mordkovich, Vera Mordkovich, G. Narovlyanskiy, Mariya Narovlyanskaya, Zina Narovlyanskaya, Pavel Narovlyanskiy, and Grigoriy Abramovich Fridman. All the abovementioned civilians of Jewish origin were taken to the Avdeyevka county center and imprisoned at the local Gestapo headquarters. They remained there until midday on January 21, 1942, when some members of the Gestapo headquarters in Satlino arrived in Avdeyevka. They began to load the Jews onto trucks, and took them away to be shot. However, I do not know where they were shot.