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Murder Story of Igren Jews at the Igren Mental Asylum
Murder Site
Igren
Ukraine (USSR)
In October 1941 members of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C ordered the liquidation of the Igren mental asylum. Only able-bodied patients were to be temporarily spared. The first to be murdered were Jewish patients. The victims were led in groups into one of the asylum rooms, where they were given a posionous injection and left to die.
According to Soviet documents, a total of 1,000 patients from Igren were murdered in 1941-1942 (400 according to the German report). It is not known how many Jews were among these victims.
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The German report from Igren
February 25, 1942
Operational Situation Report USSR No. 173
Einsatzgruppe C ...400 inmates of the Igrin [sic] mental hospital...were disposed of.
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 300.
Igren
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Murder Site
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