Murder Story of Kropotkin Jews at the Kazanskaya Hill

Shortly after the occupation of the town by the Fascists, several local residents were thrown in jail. The doomed and helpless victims were tortured and abused, with the torturers making no attempt to interrogate them or extract any information [out of them]. Afterward, the civilians were shot near the town, at Kazanskaya Hill, at the airport, in the forest near the Kuban River, and in the garden of the Komsomolskaya Pravda collective farm. The executions took place in the evening and in the morning. The residents of the town could hear the heartrending screams of the victims, and the pleas of those begging for mercy. Thus, one fifteen-year-old girl (her last name could not be established) begged the killers to spare her. The victims were executed in pits and ditches, which were then covered with a thin layer of sand. Apparently, about twenty such pits and ditches have been identified. The pits at Kazanskaya Hill alone contain the bodies of as many as 700 victims of Fascist terror.