Murder Story of Orel Jews in Nekrasovka

... In July 1942 I was taken to the county police, where I was given a list of sick Jews who were hospital patients. It was stated [in the document] that they would be taken by the police and transported to a Jewish colony. It should be noted that in April–May the town authorities issued an order that forbade providing medical assistance to Jews. I was not sent the order due to a previous agreement with the head of the local medical authorities. That is why 5 sick Jews were sent to my hospital from Hospital No. 1. By the time the order from the police was received about 20 Jewish patients were in the hospital but some of them were under changed [i.e. non-Jewish] names and some of them were not included on the list. After 2-3 days a policeman with a cart appeared and took away 8 Jews: 3 surgery patients and 5 mental patients. The other 5 Jews were taken by Gestapo men. According to staff members Doctor Ryabtseva and nurses Yeliseeva and Cherepova, the Germans treated them [the Jews] very brutally, in particular, they insisted on taking away the patient Gratoul [name not clear] who was on the brink of death. They did not even allow him to be put on a pillow. The Germans came for the Jews in a covered vehicle [truck]. After that Gestapo men came to the hospital twice to interrogate me about the long delay in the Jews' deportation. After looking around the hospital, they said that there were many patients with Jewish faces and, therefore, they had to be carefully checked. In the month of September staff member Yaroslavskaya happened to see in prison two Jewish men who had been taken from the hospital. They were extremely exhausted and dressed in rags but the guards did not allow her to speak to them....

... Starting in July a dark, covered truck used to come to the bio-factory [for producing biological components] [to which the patients had been moved]. The patients, wearing only hospital gowns or dresses, were put onto it and taken away somewhere. Rumors spread that they were taken to a trench near Nekrasovka village, where they were shot. The Germans had said that the patients would be evacuated to Belorussia. These patients were away taken without their case records....