4 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle "scientific experiments." "The hermetically sealed vans. asphyxi- Jews are placed in special vans ated, and buried seven kilometers where they are asphyxiated with outside the city. (Continued from Page 1) Iu Krupko the Germans shot three Jews in the typhus hospital. gases and their corpses then bu- about a thousand Jews, as far They went there and in the ward ried with the help of excavators." back as October, 1941. They What happened, or rather what drove them into a swamp, lined shot two girls sick with typhus. is happeing, in the cities still them up along a ditch, stripped Only the Jew, Engineer Kissel- occupied by the Germans we leara them nude and killed them. Lit- man, survived in Kursk. He was from the few fortunate ones who tle children and old people were a patient in the hospital and the have by chance escaped the butch- among them. In Kholopkovichi, nurse told the Germans he had ers' clutches. Anna Schneiderman, 900 Jews were buried in sandpits. died. a girl student of Moscow Univer- Red Army man Alexander Sha- One Jew survived in Kursk, city, was saved by the inhabitants piro, who escaped from German and one crazy old -Jewish woman of Smolensk. She told me of the captivity, was in Dniepropetrovsk. in Voroshilavgrad (she fled the extermination of the Smolensk There on Oct. 16, 1941, the Ger- city and wandered about the Jews. When the Germans occu- mans shot 26,000 Jews. He was fields), one Jew in Rostov, three pied the city they transferred the also in Pavlograd where on Oct. Jews in Kharkov. The Germans Jews to a camp which they called 12, 1941, the Hitlerites massa- have slain thousands of Jews. a ghetto. There the Germans cred 4,000 Jews. In April, 1942, The adults were asphyxiated with made sport of their victims: they in Kharkov, in the courtyard of gases, the children poisoned. This compelled old men to dance, then the tractor plant, the Hitlerites is a truth which the world should killed them. They raped the Jew- shot 13,000 Jews. In November, know. ish girls and buried the children 1941, in Poltava, they slew 3,000 German officers and sildiers in alive in sight of their mothers, Jews. their letters and diaries readily saying, "We are planting Jews— Figures convey nothing to the describe this extermination of new ones will grow." heart. People are accustomed to Jews. Feldwebel Schubert, of the On July 7, 1942, all the sur- figures. But I would like them to 299th Infantry Division, speaks viving Jews-1,500 in all—were hear behind these figures the in his diary of the Hitlerites' led out of the "ghetto," put into wails of infants and the cries of mothers. In Vitebsk the Germans buried Jewish children alive, and the in- Le Show) Tovo Tikosevu — A Happy New Year habitants will never forget the cries that rose out of the earth. 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