CHILDREN MASSACRED BY GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 7

CHILDREN MASSACRED BY GERMANS

Gully FiUed With Bodies

(Received February 11, 11.50 p.m.)

LONDON, February 11. The bodies of 128 children aged from 21 to 18 who had not only been shot but whose skulls and bones had been broken, were discovered by Russian troops who reoccupied the village of Mikhailovka, near Dnepropetrvsk, reports Moscow radio.

A Russian boy, Mitya Kozub, the sole survivor of a local childrens home, declared that he saw the Germans shooting his companions. The boy took Russian soldiers to the scene of the execution, which was a gully beyond the village. Excavations were started, and m the cold light of a January day it was discovered that the whole gully was filled with children’s bodies. A protocol drawn up on the spot and signed by Mitya Kozub and the leading guards’ officers, detailed the massacre. “The sick and little children were driven off m carts and the rest taken on foot. The Hitlerites snatched their victims, threw them into a ditch, and shot them with tommyguns,”- the protocol said. 'We found the bodies piled up haphazardly.