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Murder Story of Katerinovka Jews in Chumaki
Murder Site
Chumaki
Ukraine (USSR)
In mid-August 1941 several Katerinovka Jews who were members of the Fraylebn kolkhoz tried to flee in the direction of Zaporozhye. On August 15, 1941 they were caught by Germans and shot near Chumaki village. Their bodies were thrown into ditches. Neither the number of victims nor the German unit that perpetrated this massacre is known.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the letter of Chief Military Prosecutor of the Red Army Lieutenant-General Nosov to the Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of the Atrocities Committed by the German-fascist Occupiers:
...On August 15, 1941, with the retreat of the Red Army units, the inhabitants of Katerinovka village, mostly from the Freyleben kolkhoz, fled in the direction of Zaporozhye. In the area of the village of Chumaki the German monsters opened automatic fire on the moving transport of kolkhoz members, shooting hundreds of people and throwing their bodies into ditches near the village of Chumaki....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-61-691 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19707
Chumaki
trench
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.043;34.383