Murder Story of Bakhchisaray Jews in Eski-Yurt

- Emir Ali, tell us, please, where we are. - We are on the outskirts of Bakhchisaray, it is called “the 2nd Slope.” This place is covered with logs. Beforehand, there was a road that led to the old city of Bakhchisaray. The residents of Eski-Yurt witnessed groups of people that the Germans took to the outskirts, and heard explosions. Obviously, they shot the people, threw the bodies over here, and then blew them up. That’s where the original location was. - Who were the civilians who were killed? - They were from Bakhchisaray or from its vicinity. We found a spoon with an inscription “Ashkenazi.” That was the name of a family from Bakhchisaray.

…Several more days passed and the Jews who had been registered [beforehand] were given an order to appear at the train station to be sent to a [labor] camp and to bring with them 14 kilograms of luggage. By the evening all [the Jews] were assembled. They were locked into a barn, where they were held overnight. In the morning they were loaded onto trucks, taken to a ravine near the train station, and all murdered there. No one, including children and the elderly, was spared. About 200 were killed, including the teacher Chana Karpova and the whole family of the very well known woman Dr. Shapovalova. On April 1944, i. e., soon before the rule of the German executioners came to an end, the fascist monsters hunted down children from mixed marriages and took them away. On April 10, i. e., 4 days before the Germans were driven out of Bakhchisaray, several of these children were shot to death.