Murder Story of Apostolovo Jews on the Road from Krivoy Rog to Nikopol

... In September 1941 they [the Germans] shot: ...3. the head of the pharmacy [Mr.] Druy and his mother 4. the wife of the photograper Paikin with her 4 children. All of them were shot outside the village of Apostolovo at the clay pit located near the road to Nikopol. Paikina's children were brutally murdered with rifle butts:their skulls were smashed against the wheels of the cart in which they had been driven to the shooting site.... Subsequently 56 bodies of men, women, and children who were all brutally murdered by the German occupiers were discovered at this clay pit....