Mass murder of the Jews of Komsomolskoye

Polina Belskaya, who was born in 1931 in Makhnovka (later Komsomolskoye) and lived there during the war years, tells how the Jews of Komsomolskoye were ordered by Germans to gather with their belongings on September 10, 1941 on the territory of an oil-processing factory that was then under construction and how at the gathering place the Jews were robbed of their possessions, women had their hair cut short, and the men were separated from the women and children. Belskaya recounts how several Jewish male skilled workers, including her fathe,r were separated from the rest of the Jews, while she, her mother, and her two brothers were taken, together with the other Jews of Komsomolskoye, to the Zhezhelev forest (5 kilometers from Komsomolskoye), where all of them were shot. Belskaya tells how her mother covered her and she fell down into death pit alive and later crawled out of the pit and brought to the Komsomolskoye ghetto. http://www.yadvashem.org//untoldstori...