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Murder Story of Odessa Jews at the Shooting Range in Odessa

Murder Site
Shooting Range in Odessa
Ukraine (USSR)
The last mass-shooting of the Jews in Odessa was carried out on November 15, 1941. About 1,000 Jews were taken by truck to the air field area on the outskirts of the city and shot at the place where a shooting range of the Red Army was located before the war.
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Lyubov Paladienko, who was born in 1912 and lived in Odessa during the war years, testified:
Documentation of the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK), 1944 regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Odessa and the Odessa Region, 1941-1942
...On November 15, 1941 civilians who were arrested in Odessa and other places were taken in large trucks [in groups] of 50 people or more - men, women, and children together - to the air field, i.e. to the shooting range, where [before the war] Red Army units trained ..., there the civilians were shot. On November 15, 1941, together with my father, Pavel Frolovich Sklifosovskiy and my mother Sonya Fyodorovna Paladienko, I saw with my own eyes how civilians were taken on 3 trucks to the quarry pits and shot there. Just then, right before our eyes, several people were fleeing, trying to save themselves, but Romanian soldiers caught them and shot them. Thus, at this place on November 15, 1941 alone about 1,000 civilians, men, women, and children, were shot....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-69-342 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19970
Shooting Range in Odessa
shooting range
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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