According to one testimony, in November 1941 Germans surrounded the village, took away all the Jews (mainly children, women and the elderly) by truck, and shot them to death at the 60-meter deep Shehim well located about 2 kilometers west of the Kalinindorf and not far from Shekhim (present-day Matveyevka) village. In June 1942 36 Kalinindorf Jews were collected at the local school, taken by truck to the area of the Shehim well, and shot to death there by a Feldgendarmerie unit. Before the shootings the Germans smeared the children's noses and lips with poison and the mothers were forced to throw their children alive into the well before being shot and thrown into the well themselves.

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