The Holocaust period and the colonies
Source of the Holocaust material and translater of
the testimony sheets.
Chaim Freedman
Petah Tikvah, Israel
email:
chaimjan@zahav.net.il
The following is a description of the action carried out by the Nazis against the Jews of Zelenopolye in which Shlomo-Reuven Komisaruk was killed.
(See Yad Vashem testimonies below)
The Death of the Jewish Collective Farm Workers of Zelenopolye
Taken from `The Black Book' (by Ilya Ehrenburg, 1980)
Zelenopolye is an old Jewish agricultural colony. At one time it was the site of the rich and flourishing collective farm "Emes". Before the war, Jews, Russians, there every year to see this blissful friendly family.
When the Germans arrived in Zelenopolye, they found that a significant portion of the Jewish population had evacuated. Only a few families and a handful of old folks remained who did not want to leave the place where they were born and had grown up. These were feeble old people: Idl Kalmanovitch, Girsh-Leib Kozlovsky, and his wife, Shloyma Kamsoryuk and his wife, and others.
As soon as the Germans occupied the colony they decided to "clean the earth and the air" of Jews. Murder was not enough for them. According to their plan, the people had to pass through all the circles of hell. Idl Kalmanovitch was an old, respected, religious Jew. The Germans spread his tallis on the ground and ordered the old man to kneel on it before the bandits. The old man refused. Then the Germans shaved off his snow-white beard. But even that was not enough for them. With a razor they scraped the skin from his face, cut his face in many places, and cut off his ears. In spite of his terrible pain, Kalmanovitch did not ask the Germans for mercy.
Shloyma Kamsoryuk was an invalid and an honest worker. The villains tortured him mercilessly. They cut Shloyma into pieces and cast the dismembered body to the dogs.
The other Jews remaining in the colony hid in the rain and the cold for a long time, but the same fate overtook them as well.
Khana Patursky's family was murdered in a vicious fashion. Her sixteen-year-old daughter Rakhil was raped and shot. Her other two children and her mother were also shot. The oldest daughter, Tanya, was hanged before her mother's eyes.
All in all, seventy-four local residents and fourteen nprisoners of war were killed in Zelenopolye. There were very many victims in this region, since it was a national Jewish district.'
Three Yad Vashem testimony sheets (scanned original and translation) for
Shlomo Reuven Komisaruk and his sons Vladimir and Lev.
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YAD VASHEM "DAF ED" [testimonial form] [number] 166816 Surname: Komisaruk Personal name: Vladimir Date of birth\estimated age: 1900 Gender: Male Marital state: Birthplace: Ukraine, Zaporozhe Oblast, Jewish colony Grafskaya Mother: - Father: Shloyme-Rubin Spouse: Place of residence: Ukraine, Zaporozhe Oblast, Jewish colony Zelenopolye Place of residence during the war: Action in army.
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Vladimir Komisaruk - Yad Vashem
Place and circumstance of death: Perished at the Front in Smolensk region.
Details of the declarer: Komisaruk, Daniil Semenovitch
Relationship to the victim: brother
Address: Ukraine, Town of Mariupol, 15 Kazantzev St. 31, apartment 125.
I declare herewith that the testimony I have given in all its details was correct and true to the best of my knowledge and familiarity.
Signature: Komisaruk
Place and date of registration: Town of Mariupol, 19.12.95
During the war I was in the camp\ghetto\forest\prisoner: evacuated
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YAD VASHEM "DAF ED" [testimonial form] [number] 166835 Surname: Komisaruk Personal name: Shloyme-Rubin Date of birth\estimated age: - Gender: Male Marital state: married Birthplace: Ukraine, Zaporozhe Oblast, Jewish colony Grafskaya Mother: - Father: Shepa Spouse: Place of residence: Ukraine, Zaporozhe Oblast, Jewish colony Zelenopolye Place of residence during the war: then - Jewish colony Zelenopolye. Occupation: farmer Date of death: October 1941
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Shloyme-Rubin Komisaruk - Yad vashem
Place and circumstance of death: Perished in the Jewish colony Zelenopolye, Zaporozhe Oblast in the mass execution [ shooting] of Jews.
Details of the declarer: Komisaruk, Daniil Semenovitch
Relationship to the victim: son
Address: Ukraine, Town of Mariupol, 15 Kazantzev St. 31, apartment 125.
I declare herewith that the testimony I have given in all its details was correct and true to the best of my knowledge and familiarity.
Signature: Komisaruk
Place and date of registration: Town of Mariupol, 19.12.95
During the war I was in the camp\ghetto\forest\prisoner: evacuated.
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YAD VASHEM "DAF ED" [testimonial form] [number] 166831 Surname: Komisaruk Personal name: Lev Date of birth\estimated age: 1907 Gender: Male Marital state: Birthplace: Jewish colony Grafskaya, Zaporozhe Oblast, Ukraine Mother: - Father: Shloyme-Rubin Spouse: Place of residence: Ukraine, Zaporozhe Oblast, Jewish colony Zelenopolye Place of residence during the war: Action in army. Occupation: storeman in exchange store. [place where people brought old clothes, metal to exchange for food, soap etc] Date of death: October-November 1941 |
Lev Komisaruk - Yad vashem
Place and circumstance of death: Perished at the Front in Donbass region.
Details of the declarer: Komisaruk, Daniil Semenovitch
Relationship to the victim: brother
Address: Ukraine, Town of Mariupol, 15 Kazantzev St. 31, apartment 125.
I declare herewith that the testimony I have given in all its details was correct and true to the best of my knowledge and familiarity.
Signature: Komisaruk
Place and date of registration: Town of Mariupol, 19.12.94
During the war I was in the camp\ghetto\forest\prisoner:
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