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Murder story of Lubny Jews in the Zasulye Yar

Murder Site
Zasulye Yar
Ukraine (USSR)
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/36
On October 10, 1941 the German commander of Lubny ordered all Jews from the town and the rest of the county to gather on October 15 (October 16, according to another source) in the outlying part of Lubny named Zasulye (another source says Zamostye Street), on the pretext that they were being relocated. At 9 a.m. of that day about 4,500 Jews who were assembled in Zasulye were surrounded by Sonderkommando 4a and their local collaborators near the rope factory and forced to undress. Then they were made to run, in groups of 35-40, to anti-tank trenches located near the factory, where they were shot.

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From a letter sent by N. Suprunenko to the newspaper Izvestiya (Moscow) on October 1943:
... They [the Germans] occupied Lubny on September 13, 1941 and immediately began shooting, arresting and, especially, persecuting Jews and destroying their homes and property. On October 16 an order was issued that all Jews living in Lubny had to appear by 9 a.m. on the outskirts of [the village of] Zasulye and bring with them food for several days. It was rumored that they were about to be deported. [Non-Jewish] doctors asked in vain to spare their colleagues – Kogan, the town’s famous midwife S.S. Goldberg, the elderly dentist Palem, the half-blind widow of Doctor Barskiy (who had taken care of the people of Lubny for over 30 years), the family of the late dentist Davidson (who was very popular), and many others. These pleas were ignored: those who made them were threatened for trying to interfere. A day later the terrifying rumor began spreading through the town that they had been “shot to death.” For two or three days the ground where this evil took place was heaving. Nothing like this has ever been heard of in the whole world: people being murdered for no fault without being able to defend themselves….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-70-1118 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19973
Zasulye Yar
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
49.990;33.024
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/36
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/47
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/41
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/48
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Bundesarchiv, Copy YVA 2725/8
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/38
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/53
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/34
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/33
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/22
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/40
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/25
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murderV
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/23
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/39
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/49
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/46
Photos from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/31
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/52
Photo from the assembly of the Lubny Jews before their murder
Hamburger Institut fuer Sozialforschung , Copy YVA 5705/35