Murder story of Orel Jews in the Medvedevskiy Forest

During the period of the temporary occupation of Orel by German fascist troops the fascist fiends liquidated innocent Soviet civilian residents of the town who were Jews and who suffered under the yoke of the executioners. The German fascist villains took their victims from the town to the Medvedskiy Forest. They committed their crimes 50 meters from the road. Among the brutally shot Soviet people were young children, women, and old people. When Orel was liberated by divisions of the Red Army, we discovered 3 pits in the Medvedkovsky Forest. According to testimonies of local residents, more than 40 innocent Soviet civilians who were victims of the German fascist executioners were buried there.

... I learned from the account of a prisoner of war about the inhuman atrocities perpetrated by the Germans against innocent residents of Orel who were Jewish. He told me the following: "I and some other prisoners of war guarded by German troops (it was in the late fall of 1942) were taken to the Medvedevskiy Forest (near the town of Orel). There we were forced to dig pits. We had finished digging three pits by dawn of the following day. After that the Germans brought several Jewish families - Soviet civilians - there by truck. Among them were young babies, as well as elderly people. The ones they brought were placed near the pits, the children by their mothers' legs. After that the Germans began shooting them with sub-machineguns. Among them some were only wounded and the children were still alive. Despite this, the German threw the living ones, the dead ones, and the wounded ones together into the pits we had dug. Then we were forced to cover [the bodies] with earth. After we had finished covering the pits, the moans of the wounded ones and the cries of children were heard from under the ground. In order to conceal the traces of their crimes the German fiends drove their trucks over the surface of the pits for several times. Everything was finished."...

… I asked Zhilyaev and Teplov [local residents who helped bury the bodies]: "Where do you get your gold teeth?" Zhilyaev replied: "You are the boss of this forest but you don't know what you have in the forest. Some kikes were buried where millet had been sown. They had gold teeth. So we pulled them out." Then I asked Zhilyaev and Teplov: "Are there any teeth still left there and how do you pull them out or get the teeth out since the dead have their jaws tightly closed." Zhilyaev replied: "You are too late. We have already pulled them all out and put them into our own mouths. We got them this way: I, Zhilyaev, hit one of the bodies and got the teeth this way: I took a shovel and struck the skull and all the teeth fell out."