I am omitting a few sentences which, in my opinion, need not be read into the Record.
“At the time of the second occupation, when the Germans broke into Kerch again, they began to avenge themselves with even greater fury on perfectly innocent people.”
The witness testifies that the fascist butchers first of all avenged themselves on the military personnel and that they beat wounded soldiers to death with rifle butts. On the same page, 115, you will find the following excerpt:
“The prisoners of war were driven into large buildings, which were then set on fire. Thus, the Voikov school was burned down, together with the club for engineering and technical workers containing 400 soldiers and officers of the Red Army.
“Not a man succeeded in escaping from the burning building. All those who attempted to save themselves were mowed down by machine gun fire.
“Wounded soldiers were savagely tortured to death in the small fishing village of Mayak.”
Another woman witness who lived in this village, A. P. Buryatchenko, testified:
“On 28 May 1942 the Germans shot all the peaceful inhabitants who had remained in the village and had not succeeded in hiding. The fascist monsters mistreated the wounded Soviet prisoners of war, beat them with rifle butts, and then shot them. In my home, the Germans discovered a girl in military uniform, who resisted the fascists, crying, ‘Shoot, you vipers, I die for the Soviet people and for Stalin, but you, you monsters, will die a dog’s death.’ This girl patriot was shot on the spot.”
There is, in the district of Kerch, the stone quarry of Adjimushkaisk. Red Army soldiers were exterminated and poisoned by gas. N. N. Dashkova, a woman from the village of Adjimushkaisk, testified:
“I myself saw the Germans, who had caught about 900 Red Army soldiers in the quarry, first ill-treat and then shoot them. The fascists used gas.”