According to one testimony, during the first days of July 1942 a group of the Jewish prisoners of war from Sevastopol was apparently shot to death by a German murder squad near a vineyard located at the 2nd kilometer of the Sevastopol-Balaklava road.

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From the testimony of Ksenia Lubacheva, who was born in 1888 in Sevastopol and between 1942-1944 was living in a Sevastopol suburb, at the 2nd kilometer of the Sevastopol-Balaklava road

…On the first day after the German troops' entry into Sevastopol the German soldiers began to take large groups of captured Red Army soldiers and male forced-laborers from the city to the vineyard that was located about 100 meters from my home. My house was occupied by Germans officers, [my] family was forced down into the cellar…. When I came up from the cellar, I heard heartbreaking cries and groans in the area of the vineyard where the captured Red Army soldiers were being held…. At that time a woman came to our cellar … and told us that the Germans were shooting the captured Red Army soldiers. A few moments later a German orderly came down to the cellar … we asked him why the captives had been shot, he answered that they were "Jude [Jews]"….

The Holocaust: The Catastrophe in Crimea 1941-1942, Simferopol, 2004, p. 86 (Russian).

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