Murder story of Pyatigorsk Jews in the Komsomolskaya Forest

The body of Irina Topsinskaya was found in a grave together with the body of her mother, medical nurse Topsinskaya, and other bodies in the area of the Komsomolskaya Forest meadow. According to testimonies of her mother's colleagues she had been arrested together with her mother, her mother was a maternity nurse in the Pervomayaskaya Polyclinic…. Summary: on the basis of the data collected during the examination of the body of Ira Topsinskaya, 8 years old, the conclusion was drawn that her death was the result of a gunshot wound to the head……

After Pyatigorsk was occupied, the staff of Polyclinic No. 1 was purged by the German Fascist bandits. The following civilians, along with their family members, were brutally tortured and killed: 1. the surgeon Dr. Mikhail Ilyich Frank, with his wife and their daughter 2. the dentist Solomon Lvovich Beskin, with his wife 3. the dentist Rakhil Milhaylovna Ayzinova, with her husband and their two children 4. the general-practitioner Arnold Davidovich Gibkot, with his wife and their daughter 5. the nurse Antonina Yakovlevna Topsinskaya, with her daughter 6. the nurse Sofya Abramovna Goldenberg, with her sister 7. the father and mother of Doctor Vladimir Abramovich Epelbaum 8. the sister of medical records administrator Mariya Nikolayevna Volkovskaya