Until June 17 comparative quiet ensued. But fate was preparing a most cruel blow, though short in duration, for the already sufficiently tormented, nerve-racked, worn-out Jewish population; a blow from the united bands of the experienced masters of pogroms, Koziakov, Smirnov, Shevchenko, and Popov. The visitation lasted only two hours, but two hours of torment and affliction which made all the previous experiences of Dubovo's inhabitants seem pale. Yet if anyone had stood at the gates of the town during this time, it would have seemed to him that the town was enjoying a marvelous peace. Secretly, quietly, and at the same time expeditiously, the young braves of Popov did their work. They cut to pieces five human bodies exclusively with sabres. A stern sentence was imposed upon the one soldier who fired a gun. Secretly, quietly, and
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inaudibly those unspeakable crimes were performed in the cellar floor of the local Jew Feldman's house.
The detachment of Koziakov and Popov consisted of a cavalry squadron of a hundred men and 400 infantry. It had machine guns and nearly 200 empty wagons, destined for carrying off Jewish goods and chattels. And we must do justice to these choice heroes of Popov; they cleaned up the 'houses completely. They kept to the regulations laid upon them, not to kill women, and to kill men at the word of command. They killed old-men "communists," standing with one foot in the grave, and fresh youths, almost children. At the doors of the cellar-floor of the house of D. Feldman, which they called headquarters, stood two executioners, a Moldavian and a Russian, with sabres in their hands, right at the entrance. When a victim (a Jewish "communist") was brought up, he was stood with his face to the entrance and invited to go down to the lower story. But hardly had the victim set foot on the first step when the executioners standing behind set their arms in motion, and the curved sabres, stained purple with the blood of preceding victims, mutilated the living body, and not infrequently cut the head off entirely. The victim then fell below to the ground, covered with blood, on top of the bloody human bodies strewn all around and the fragments of dismembered bodies.
In the two hours of the massacre fifteen people were killed, an uncounted number mutilated, and eight seriously wounded. At 2 P.M. a trumpet sounded to call the troops together, and with songs the detachments of Popov and Koziakov, accompanied by peasants from the village of Nebelievka, by the detachment of Podvysoky, consisting of Moldavians, and by many persons of intellectual appearance, left the town, leaving new widows and orphans, having performed new exploits of torture upon the innocent, and having violated many, many Jewish girls. June 17 is the last terrible pogrom in the review of occurrences down to July 9, 1919.
The facts set forth in this report are confirmed by the signatures:
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II. Testimony of Haskell Duvidovich Filverk, Aged 33, Dealer in Manufactures
On June 17, when Popov's gang entered our town, my brotherin-law and I were at home. Through the window we saw that two soldiers were approaching us. My brother-in-law ran to
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