Murder story of Starobelsk Jews on the Road from Starobelsk to Svatovo

1. According to the statement of the citizen Maria Solodka, (unreadable). …In July-August 1942, the German butchers shot and tortured to death as many as 200 Soviet citizens on the road from Starobelsk to Svatove, three kilometers from Starobelsk. The exhumation took place on March 23-26, 1943. The bodies of men, women, children, and elderly individuals were found in the snowdrifts, covered with soil. 130 victims of fascist terror were counted. Eleven residents of Starobelsk were identified by the condition of their clothes. 2) Leonty Davidovich Rubenshtein – born in 1896, a deportee, the former director of the Starobelsk district hospital – identified by his wife, Maria Mikhailovna Rubenshtein. 1) Zelman Srulevich Bronshtein – born in 1896 in the town of Kamenets-Podolsk; passport series 1 - vp. H. 501117, issued by the Kamenets-Podolsk Police Department on December 28, 1940. Page 3 in Bronshtein's passport lists his children: his son Srul Zelmanovich, born 1928, and his daughter Dvoira Zelmanovna, born 1937. The place of residence of the citizen Z. S. Bronshtein is the Azov-Black Sea Krai. 2) Faina-Sarah Davidovna Bronshtein – born in 1896 in the town of Kamenets-Podolsk. Passport issued by the Kamenets-Podolsk Police Department on January 19, 1937. Her passport lists the registration code M. 85177 and the name of her daughter, Dvoira Zelmanovna Bronshtein. From the available documents, we can deduce that all four members of the Bronshtein family – the husband, the wife, and their two children – were shot by the Nazi executioners.