Murder Story of Sevastopol Jews on the 5th Kilometer of the Balaklava Road

... On July 12, 1942, on my way home from the city, I took the road …then it was the Balaklava road. After passing about 200 meters from the trench that crossed the road, I stopped when I heard the noise of trucks driving close by. When I looked back, I saw a number of large canvas-covered trucks that had stopped near the anti-tank trench, about 100 meters east of the road. Soon afterwards German soldiers in uniforms appeared near the trucks. They opened the backboards and people in civilian clothes, mainly the elderly... and women with children were somehow getting out of the trucks. The soldiers took them to the trench and shot them to death at point-blank range. Being terrified at this sight, I ran home....

… On July 3, 1942 a large group of people was taken to the camp located at the 4th kilometer, where … according to my husband, who was in this camp, a search for ...people of Jewish nationality and Communists was instigated by provocateurs. All this was staged and the first one found was called both a Communist and a Jew; there, at the camp, they [the Germans] beat them to death. The Gestapo itself initiated and carried all this out. Then the men were called to the barrack for interrogation: they were interrogated by German officers…. After the interrogation [that took place] from July 3-4 to July 10, 1942 some of these men, in groups of 15 or more, were shot to death near the camp by a German murder squad with machine-guns at point-blank range. These mass shootings continued until July 10, 1942.