Murder site of Sverdlovka Jews. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615540
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Murder Story of Sverdlovsk Jews at the Old Well in the Sverdlovka Area
Murder Site
Old Well in Sverdlovka
Russia (USSR)
On December 7, 1941 a unit of Einsatzgruppe D arrived in Sverdlovka and assembled about 100 Jews in the local school building. They were told that they were going to be resettled. After being robbed, the Jews were taken into the steppe several hundred meters from the village and shot at a well.
Related Resources
Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Anatolii Pogrebnyak, who was born in 1941 and lived in Sverdlovka (Sverdlovsk) during the war years, related: (Part I)
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyi and Tatyana Velichko in 2010
- When we came here in 1949 it [the well] was already filled.
- Who filled it and when?
- That I don’t know.
- But were you aware that there were people there?
- Yes, my grandmother said that. She said people fell into the well out of fear, not because they were hurt, but out of fear.
- How did she know that? Was she there herself, or did someone tell her?
- She must have been here herself because she lived here!...
- How did you know about the well?
- The old woman told me.
- Do you mean your grandmother?
- Yes.
- What was her name?
- Frosia. She said that they were catching Jews. For instance, there was a woman with two kids who ran away, so they chased her on a motorcycle, brought them back, had them stand next to the well and shot them.
YVA O.101 / 595
Old Well in Sverdlovka
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Murder site of Sverdlovka Jews. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615540