Murder site of Krasnopolye's Jews near Sidorovka village. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615493
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Murder Story of Krasnopolye Jews in Sidorovka
Murder Site
Sidorovka
Belorussia (USSR)
On October 22, 1941 the 2nd company of the German 322nd Order Police battallion arrived in Krasnopolye. The Germans and local auxiliary policemen assembled between 121 (according to a German source) and about 250 (according to a Soviet source) Jewish men (according to another Soviet source, there were adult Jews of both sexes) and told them they were being sent to work in Propoysk. Instead, all those assembled were loaded onto carts and taken to the Kalinin kolkhoz, nine kilometers northwest of Krasnopolye, between the villages of Sidorovka and Kalinovka, where they were shot to death.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
Soviet Reports
From the article "What was the fate of the Jews in the Krasnopolye area?"
... At the end of October 1941 a detachment of German gendarmes arrived in Krasnopolye. This [detachment] assembled all the adult Jews - men and women - under the pretext of sending them to work at Propoysk, Mogilev District, and with the promise that they would soon return to Krasnopolye.
On the same day the Jews were taken out of town in carts and shot in a forest in the area of the Kalinin state farm.
In total, approximately 250 people were shot....
"Batskaushchyna" (Belarusian)
Sidorovka
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Murder site of Krasnopolye's Jews near Sidorovka village. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615493