Place on Oktyabrskaya Street where Dzhankoy Jews were murdered. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy.
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Murder Story of Dzhankoy Jews on Oktyabrskaya Street in Dzhankoy
Murder Site
Oktyabrskaya (Dzhankoy)
Russia (USSR)
On December 30, 1941 a detachment of Sonderkommando 10b commanded by Siegfried Schuchart, which was transferred to Dzhankoy from Kerch, together with members of the local Tartar militia, took 443 inmates of the labor camp in Dzhankoy toward the anti-tank trench at the corner of Oktyabrskaya and Kirov Streets on the northeastern outskirts of Dzhankoy. There the victims were taken in small groups to the trench, ordered to undress, made to lie face-down in the trench and, then, they were shot.
Those Jews who managed to escape this massacre but were caught later, as well as Jews brought to Dzhankoy from the surrounding area and, also, from other parts of the Crimean peninsula, were murdered in the same place and in the same way during 1942.
In January or February 1942 this location was the site of the murder of 450 Krymachks, members of the original Jewish community in Crimea, who had been living in Dzhankoy and the area.
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From the article "Murder in Dzhankoy":
... The Germans picked groups of adults, children, and the elderly from the camp and herded them to the antitank thrench outside of town. It was winter, and there was snow. The people were hungry and sick and could barely drag themselves along. They were driven on nevertheless. A three or four-year-old child fell behind, and a German beat him with a rubber truncheon. The child fell, got up, ran a few steps, and fell again. Again the rubber truncheon struck him on the back.
The people were arranged in formation next to the trench and shot. The children scattered in all directions. In a rage, the Germans chased after the children.... They shot at them and grabbed them by the legs when they caught them and beat them against the ground....
Once trucks arrived, and they began to stuff people into them from the attic. Everyone knew that they were being taken to their deaths. Major German units guarded the building and the road leading to the mass grave. In the beginning of the confusion some of the people attempted to escape. Some of them succeeded; I was among them....
Ehrenburg, Ilya and Grossman, Wassili. The black book : the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1981, pp. 286-287.
Oktyabrskaya (Dzhankoy)
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Place on Oktyabrskaya Street where Dzhankoy Jews were murdered. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615514