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Murder Story of Verkhnedneprovsk Jews at the Mound in the Verkhnedneprovsk Area
Murder Site
Verkhnedneprovsk Area
Ukraine (USSR)
One day, either in the autumn of 1941, December 1941, or in the autumn of 1942 (according to different testimonies) the Jews of Verkhnedneprovsk were assembled in the yard of the local police station on the pretext that they were going to be sent for agricultural work. The assembled people were loaded onto trucks and driven several kilometers outside the city to a large mound. There the Jews were forced to dig pits and to undress. Then they were shot. The perpetrators were most likely members of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C and also (according to some testimonies) Italian soldiers and local auxiliary policemen.
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Written Testimonies
German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Boris Semyonov, who was born in 1933
...One day, it was in the fall of 1942, all the Jews who could walk were assembled in the police station courtyard and told "We will take you to harvest corn." All of them were loaded onto trucks and driven about 2 kilometers out of town, accompanied by a reinforced guard [consisting] of Germans and their accomplices. There was a large mound there and everyone was forced to get off the truck. All the Jews were forced to dig a pit at this mound and were shot on the same day, including my father. The next day they [the Germans] rounded up all the old people and children and shot them too. A total of 327 [sic] people [were shot]....
YVA O.33 / 6774
Verkhnedneprovsk Area
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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