The Soviet Embassy here today made public an affidavit signed by a number of Jews in the re-occupied city of Nalchik describing the Nazi atrocities against the Jewish population and the mass-murder of aged Jewish persons and children.
“After daily pillage and murder of Jews which went on for 20 days, the Germans inaugurated the wholesale shouting of Jews still surviving in the city,” the affidavit reads. “They took over 90 families outside the city and shot them. On January 5, 1943, after the liberation of Nalchik by the Red Army, we found in an anti-tank trench and in other trenches, about 6 kilometers from the city, over 900 corpses of brutally murdered people who had been previously subjected to the most savage tortures. Many dead bodies had bashed-in skulls, arms cut off. Among the bodies were found many nursing infants who apparently died of cold and exposure, having been left alive by the Hitlerites to freeze near the dead bodies of their parents. We attest to the foregoing as being a true statement.”
The signatories to the affidavit are: Benjamin Leviev, 90 years of age; Ivil Ifraimov, 74; Levi Ashurov, 70; Pesakh Shabayev. 69; Marie Moiseyeva, 81; Bibi Davidova, 80; Isaak Libman, 82; Pesakh Ifraimov, 75. Also Mikhail Shalumov, Menashe Ifraimov, Shabatay Davidova, Debarion Leviev, Shaul Davidov; and Bertha Gribova.
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