Iron Ore Mine No. 5 Murder site in Krivoy Rog
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (GARF), Copy YVA 3150/167
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Murder Story of Krivoy Rog Jews in Iron Ore Mine No. 5
Murder Site
Iron Ore Mine № 5
Ukraine (USSR)
On October 10, 1941 Germans and Ukrainian policemen assembled the Jews of Krivoy Rog of all ages and both sexes in the building of a former synagogue. On October 14, 1941, in the morning, the assembled Jews were arranged into two huge columns and led to a pit near Iron Ore Mine No. 5, located outside the city. There the Jews were forced to undress and subjected to humiliations. Groups of 10 to 15 people were then driven to the edge of the pit, where Germans and Ukrainians armed with sub-machine guns shot them dead and rolled their bodies into the pit. Children were thrown into the pit alive. The massacre continued on the following day, October 15. The number of victims of this two-day massacre was about 3,000 on the first day and about 4,000 on the second day. The perpetrators of this mass murder were members of the 1st SS Infantry Brigade, the 314th Order Police Battalion, and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the Report of the Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of German-Fascist Crimes:
At the bottom of the mine hundreds of human bodies could be seen in a state of decay. According to witnesses' testimonies, they were killed by the bestial claws of the German occupiers.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-57-56 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19693
From the testimony of Semyon Yevtushenko about the mass murder of the Jews of Krivoy Rog:
... On October 14, 1941, at approximately 10 a.m., I was at the surface of the mine and I could see the German villains taking a long column of people from the city to the mine. In this column there were women, men, old people, and children - [all] Jewish civilians from Krivoy Rog. All of them had packages and other items.... There was a total of about 3,000 people in the column....
When being taken, these defenseless people were surrounded by policemen and the German villains....
I... saw how all the people in the column were taken to a pit near Mine No. 5 and were made to strip to their underwear. Afterwards the Germans' henchmen took three people at a time and drove them with clubs to the edge of the pit, where the German henchman bayonetted them in the neck and then pushed them into the pit or rolled them down the slope. The Germans also stood at the edge of the pit and shot the falling people.
Their henchmen kicked children into the pit alive to join their [dead] mothers....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-57-513 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19697
Iron Ore Mine № 5
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Roza Krasnaya was born in Krivoy Rog in 1929 and lived there during World War II (Interview in Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 20523 copy YVA O.93 / 20523