An obelisk erected after the war at the well site where Fraydorf Jews were murdered in November 1941. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615527
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Murder Story of Fraydorf Jews at the Fraydorf Well
Murder Site
Fraydorf Area
Russia (USSR)
Early in the morning of November 21, 1941 a detachment of Sonderkommando 11b arrived in Fraydorf. About 60 Jews remaining in the town were taken to the local police station. From there they were taken on foot into the steppe to a well 800 meters from the town and shot there. The young children were thrown into the well alive. According to the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, Jews from Boz-Oglu (Buzul), Montanay and, apparently, from other locations in Fraydorf County were murdered at the same place at the end of 1941.
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Nila Kravchenko, was born in 1927 and lived near Fraydorf during the war years, testified:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyi and Tatyana Velichko in 2010
-According to the stories the Jewish children were not shot, but poisoned.
-The suckling babies were smeared something under their noses and thrown [into the well]. We were told so, but I was not there.
-I see. Who told you about that? How trustworthy in your opinion this is?
-It all was so indeed.
-You did hear it form just one person or from different persons?
-From different. It was also told how they [the Jews] were driven, ordered to dress up, to take their valuables, that [they were told] they are going to be sent [somewhere]. Nobody saw them again.
-Can you describe the place where they were murdered?
-It is a ravine, when you are going toward the Vinogradnoye village, it is already beyond our village, an obelisk was standing there.
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Fraydorf Area
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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An obelisk erected after the war at the well site where Fraydorf Jews were murdered in November 1941. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615527