The well near the village of Krasnoe. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615522
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Murder Story of Maksim Gorkiy Jews at the Krasnoye Well (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Krasnoye Well (Gas Vans)
Russia (USSR)
On January 21 or 22, 1942 an SD unit from Simpferopol, reinforced by members of the 683th Motorized Military Police Detachment, arrived at the Maxim Gorki kolkhoz. All the Jews were assembled in the kolkhoz office, supposedly to be registered by the occupying authorities. The Jews were then forced into a gas van, which drove toward a well one kilometer southwest of Krasnoye village. On the same day the bodies of Jews from the villages of Kalininskoye and Pervomayskoye who had been gassed were thrown into the same well.
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Zinaida Rudolf, who was born in 1935 in the vicinity of Maksim Gorkiy, related:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyi and Tatyana Velichko in 2010
- Did you hear stories about that van, or you saw it yourself?
- No, I was a little girl then. People said it was a black van, and then they threw people in. They told people to bring gold, and then they took it. All the older people knew about that. The whole village was thrown in there.
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Zinaida Rudolf, who was born in 1935 in the vicinity of Maksim Gorkiy, related:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyi and Tatyana Velichko in 2010
- What villages did the people come from?
- Maxim Gorki farm – for sure.
- Kalinovka?
- There were no Jews in Kalinovka, only in Pervomayskoye.
- So people from Pervomaiskoye?
- Yes, they brought people here from Pervomaiskoye as well.
People said that the well here was very, very deep.
- How deep?
- I don’t know. I never looked in. That’s what people said.
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Krasnoye Well (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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The well near the village of Krasnoe. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615522