Murder story of Rubezhnoye Jews at the Chemical Plant in Rubezhnoye

Innocent civilians from the town of Rubezhnoye – a total of 350 people, [including] women, children, [Communist] Party and Komsomol members, Soviet activists, and Red Army POWs and officers – were tortured to death and shot.... Thus, in early August 1942 the civilian Kozina, her four-year-old daughter, a resident of Rubezhnoye named Kogan, his wife, and their two young children were arrested, either in the streets of the town or in their apartments. While these civilians were being held in custody, the German executioners and their collaborators beat and abused them, because of their Jewish origin. After enduring brutal torture, the abovementioned civilians were shot.... The Committee has exhumed the bodies of 350 peaceful civilians of Rubezhnoye who had been shot and tortured to death. [The bodies] were found in nine pits in the area of the chemical plant in Rubezhnoye.