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Murder Story of Kamenka Jews at the Avdotyevka Labor Camp
Murder Site
Avdotyevka Labor Camp
Ukraine (USSR)
On December 26 (25, according to some testimonies) the Jews of Kamenka, together with Jewish inhabitants of other Jewish colonies in the area who were all in the labor camp of Avdotiyevka, were marched out of the camp. They were told they were going to be moved to the village of Lyubimovka to construct another section of a road. When the column arrived at the small bridge close to the camp, the Latvian camp guards started to shoot people. The number of victims of this massacre is not known.
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Written Testimonies
Olga Neyman, who was born in 1927 and lived in Kamenka during the war years, testified:
... This went on until December 25, 1942. When the section of the road assigned [to us] was finished, we were all supposed to be transferred to the village of Lyubimovka in Sofiyevka County to work on the construction of another section.
The next morning additional guards and some carts appeared. All [of us] were lined up and were driven [forward], but when we got to the small bridge (a tall boxthorn bush was growing there)haphazard shooting started and people started to scream and fall. At that moment my mother grabbed my hand and we both rolled off the bridge into the boxthorn bush. When the column passed, we got up and made our way to Alekseyevka village, to someone my mother knew....
Boris Vishevnik, Elena Malkina, Basya Faerman, "Stalindorf Lives in Peoples' Memory", Dnepropetrovsk, 1998, p. 14 (in Russian)
Avdotyevka Labor Camp
Labor Camp
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Videos
Olga Teitelman was born in 1927 in Kamenka and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 24086 copy YVA O.93 / 24086
Leonid Neiman was born in 1927 in Kamenka and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 29837 copy YVA O.93 / 29837