Murder Story of Makeyevka Jews at the Kozachyi Barracks in Makeyevka

Then, upon the orders of Fuks, the Germans began to search for the remaining Jews, those who had not shown up for the registration. They were mostly women, since the men had already been "taken". They [the Jewish women] were searched for in their apartments, and the Germans gradually learned the whereabouts of the remaining Jews. Most of those they found were women, including elderly ones. They were taken to the Kozachy [Cossacks'] barracks, two kilometers from the town center, where they were subjected to cruel mistreatment, and then shot. They were about 100 people, mostly elderly women and children. All of their possessions, including even their underwear, were confiscated by the German Gendarmerie. The local [non-Jews] were very angry about that, especially when they [the Germans] began to search for so-called half-Jews, quarter-Jews, and so on. These were persons with a Jewish father and a Russian mother. For example, there was a family: a Jewish husband, a Russian wife, and a ten-year-old girl. It was necessary to prove that the girl was not Jewish.… This way, they [the Germans] massacred the Jewish population, first of all.