Murder site of Jews from Naydorf. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615538
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Murder story of Naydorf Jews in the Kalinovka Ditch
Murder Site
Kalinovka Area
Russia (USSR)
On December 16, 1941 (in 1942, according to local inhabitants) a unit of Einsatzgruppe D arrived in Naydorf. After assembling, with the assistance of the local elder and auxiliary policemen, all the village's Jews, they took them either by truck or by foot several hundred meters in the direction of Kalinovka village. Not far from Kalinovka, in an open field, all of Naydorf's Jews, about 40 of them, were shot at a ditch that had been prepared there.
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Klavdiya Tereshchenko, was born in 1930 and lived in Naydorf during the war years, testified:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyi and Tatyana Velichko in 2010
- How did they gather them?
- They brought them here.
- Directly to the ditch or to some other place first?
- Directly here. They dug a ditch, then shot them and covered the ditch using a tractor. After the war a memorial was placed there.
- Is it still there?
- I don’t know. I was there a long time ago.
- Who dug the ditch?
- I don’t know.
- Did it all happen in one day?
- I suppose so. There weren’t many of them around.
- You mentioned 10 families, didn’t you?
- Yes.
- Did they drive them?
- No, they walked.
- Was there someone you knew personally among those who were shot?
- No.
- When they shot people, were there single shots or volleys of shots?
- Volleys of shots, I think. I forgot.
YVA O.101 / 573
Kalinovka Area
ditch
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Murder site of Jews from Naydorf. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615538