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Murder Story of Gortenshtadt Jews at the Sheep Farm Wells in the Gortenshtot Area
Murder Site
Sheep Farm Wells
Russia (USSR)
On March 19, 1942 a small German unit from Saki arrived in Gortenshtadt (Gortenshtot). 15 (according to Soviet reports) Jews living in the village were brought to wells that were used for watering livestock. There the victims were placed at the edges of the wells and shot. Their bodies were thrown into the wells. After shooting, the German threw handgrenades into the wells to kill those who had only been wounded.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Ivan Ostrov, who was born in 1926 and lived in Gortenshtot during the war years, testified:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyi and Tatyana Velichko in 2010
- Ivan Timofeevich, are you showing us the wells?
- Yes. These wells formed a triangle. I know that because I worked on a nearby sheep farm in the 1950s and I was brought sheep here.
- How did you know about the shooting of the Jews here?
- From local people and from two guys who witnessed it.
- Who were these people?
- It happened in the 1960s. Not later than 1965.
- Two people came here?
- Yes, they came with a car, got out of the car, greeted me and said that they came to see the graves. They said that the Jews had been shot, and buried in the wells.
YVA O.101 / 544
Sheep Farm Wells
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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