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Murder story of Pyatikhatki Jews in the Glavogneupor Mines near Pyatikhatka
Murder Site
Glavogneupor Mines
Ukraine (USSR)
In May 1942 Germans and local policemen arrested about 500 Jews of Pyatikhatka and the County and brought them to the Glavogneupor mines on the outskirts of the town. The victims were forced to undress and then were shot to death. Their bodies were thrown into the mines. The children were thrown into the mines alive. After the shooting hand grenades were thrown into the mines. The majority of the perpetrators of this massacre were local auxiliary policemen.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Alexandra Oleinikova, born in 1920, during the NKGB investigation of former auxiliary policeman N. Chernobrivets, November 25, 1945
…In the spring of 1942 a mass shooting of Jews was carried out in Pyatikhatki County. First the police arrested all the Jews and took them to the Glavogneupor mine. For about a week all the policemen caught Jews and took them there. When the Jews had been collected, the mass shooting was carried out and the bodies were thrown into the mine.
I did not see what Chernobrivets himself did during the arrest and shooting of the Jewish population, but I remember well that all of the police officers took part in this operation....
APSBU, DNIPRO 21112 copy YVA TR.18 / 188
Glavogneupor Mines
mine
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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