Murder Story of Korsun Jews in Kushchaevskiy Yar

…First they [the Jews] were driven into one house on Korolenko Street, forced to sew white patches onto their chests, kept under guard in a stinking [room], and starved. They were harnessed to carts and forced to transport water and all sorts of filth. They were forced…to graze [like animals] and were subjected to many other brutal torments. Afterwards, satisfied with these "civilized" entertainments, they [the Germans] shot them [the Jews] in groups, in the middle of the day. The hellish torments…to which the miserable Jewish population were subjected…cannot be compared to anything! The cries of the totally innocent girls; the cries of mothers bidding farewell to their nursing babies; the crying of the nursing babies; the whistling of the whips and of the bullets; the machine-gun volleys; the heaving of the earth over the buried bodies; and then monstrous mugs [i.e., faces] of the policemen returning from Kushchaevka - the place of the executions - who were carrying blood-stained clothes in their bloody claws, fighting among themselves about how to divide them [the clothes] - those were the terrible scenes that Korsun's residents preserved in their hearts for all eternity… The first to be killed was the family of the physician Ionin [?], then the Jewish girls Roza Slezova, Roza Teplitsa [?], and Litrovina [?] …The elderly women and men unable to walk to the pit were thrown like logs onto carts[?] and taken to Kushchaevka…The massacre of the Jews was carried out in March 1942…

…On orders of the local commandant's office and [German] police [authorities] of the town of Korsun, I registered all the Jewish population of the town of Korsun, about 300-400 people and, using [local] policemen, I had them [the Jews] put into specially designated buildings. They stayed [there] for some time, guarded by policemen of the town of Korsun and were subsequently shot at Khvashchievka [Kushchaevka] Yar, i.e. on the outskirts of the town of Korsun. Additionally, only in November, December 1941, and January 1942 policemen arrested 300-350 more people from among the Jewish population…I recall that during the last period a group of 10[?] Jews was arrested and shot at Khvashchievka [Kushchaevka] Yar… …All those who had been shot had their clothes stripped off [their bodies]; I don't know where they [the clothes] were sent to…

…In December 1941 and January and February 1942, on orders of the [German] rural police, using policemen, I arrested three groups of 30-40 persons [each] who were members of the Jewish population who resided in the town of Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy. They were shot by Gestapo men on the outskirts of Korsun, at Kushchaevka Yar…

…In his capacity as police commander Zinchenko participated in the resettlement of the Jewish population in the specially designated houses guarded by policemen, assigned policemen under his command to shoot Soviet civilians and to convey the latter under guard to the shooting site and, on September 25, 1941, he participated personally in the shooting of 117 government and Party activists and of civilians of Jewish origin at Kushchievka [Kushchaevskiy] Yar.