All Jewish Doctors in Pyatigorsk Killed by Nazis; Children Poisoned

Scores of Jewish doctors, nurses and other members of the medical staff of the famous sanatoriums in the Caucasus resort city of Pyatigersk were murdered by the Nazi troops when they occupied the city and shortly before they were forced to flee, it is reported today by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee here on the basis of reports reaching it from Red Armymen who were with the units that reoccupied Pyatigorsk.

Stories told the Russian soldiers by survivors indicate that the Nazis made a special point of wiping out every Jewish medical worker, the Committee states. Jewish doctors who had fled to Pyatigorsk from the Ukraine and Byelorussia shortly after the war and had been assigned to posts in the sanatoriums, were among those murdered.

In one village near Stalingrad, a Russian correspondent reports in a local newspaper today, the Russian troops found the bodies of small Jewish children who had been poisoned by the Nazis. “Those dead babies’ faces haunt my dreams.” the correspondent writes. Another correspondent, writing in the same paper, tolls how in one village the advancing Red Armyman found the grave of 22 wounded soldiers, among them many Jews, who had been killed when the Nazis seized the place. Buried with them was a young Jewish boy, Lenya, who had been shot when he pleaded with the Nazis to spare the life of one of the soldiers who had been recuperating from wounds in Lenya’s home when the Germans came.