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Murder story of Shirokoye Jews in the Ingulets Area
Murder Site
Ingulets Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In December 1942 Jews from various localities in Shirokoye County and, apparently, also from Shirokoye itself, who had managed to escape the initial massacres, as well as “Soviet [i.e. government] activists,” were shot in several pits near the town of Ingulets, northwest of Shirokoye. According to Soviet reports, the victims were forced to stand on boards laid over pits and then were shot. The children were thrown into the pits alive. According to Soviet sources, the massacre claimed the lives of 1,200 people. The identity of the perpetrators is not known.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Shirokoye
…[I]n December 1942 a mass shooting took place of the Jewish population [and] of Party and government activists of Shirokoye County. Excavation of the grave indicated that 1,200 people are buried in the grave. Residents of the village of Ingulets said that the adults were forced onto boards laid over pits and were shot, while small children were…thrown into the grave alive and then buried… [I]n the northeastern part of Ingulets village there is a fourth mass grave, in which 168 Jews are buried. They had been caught in ones and twos and shot on the spot. Thus, in December 1942 in the Ingulets rural council area [a total of] 1,476 Jews and [non-Jewish] Party and government activists were shot.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-57-71 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19693
Ingulets Area
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
47.683;33.266