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Murder Story of Krivoy Rog Jews at the Brickworks in Krivoy Rog
Murder Site
Brick Works in Krivoy Rog
Ukraine (USSR)
At the end of August 1941 members of Einsatzkommando 6C took between 105 (according to German sources) and 300 (according to Soviet sources) Jews of both sexes and all ages from Krivoy Rog and shot them at a clay pit near the city.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Fedor Krysenko:
...From the smithy I could see German soldiers leading a group of people numbering some 100-150. There were women, old people, and children. They appeared to be Jews. They were taken to a pit. The pit was cordoned off by German sub-machine gunners and the Germans shot all these people and then covered over the pit....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-57-513 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19697
From the testimony of Olga Nebesnaya
...I saw Germans with dogs leading some 200-300 Jews to a pit. They were ordered to undress, to descend into the pit and there ... they were shot dead....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-57-513 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19697
Brick Works in Krivoy Rog
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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