According to Soviet reports, Jews from Gomel were murdered near the military barracks at the 3rd (or the 6th, according to other Soviet reports) kilometer of the road leading from Gomel to Rechitsa. The victims were taken to this place by truck. The number of murdered Jews, and the date of the massacre, are unknown.
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The ChGK report from Gomel
...Most of the city's residents who were killed were shot outside the city on the Rechitsa road: ...at the 6th kilometer – near the military barracks...
We, the undersigned... on the basis of testimony from eyewitnesses... on this date carried out an exhumation in the area of a former military barracks in the forest at the 3rd kilometer of the road from the city of Gomel to Rechitsa. At the place indicated German authorities carried out mass shootings of civilian residents of the city of Gomel and nearby areas...
From eyewitnesses of the shooting who live near the location where the shootings were carried out... it has been established that at that place mass shootings of Soviet civilians were carried out by German authorities, starting from the first days of the occupation and lasting until the day of their expulsion from the city of Gomel. 4-5 trucks transported people weekly, everyone had to strip, then they were murdered and buried. Among the murder victims were women, old people, and children...