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Murder Story of Pavlograd Jews in Mavrino

Murder Site
Mavrino
Ukraine (USSR)
According to various sources, the inmates of the Pavlograd Jewish labor camp who were unable to work anymore, as well as Jewish children, were taken to the village of Mavrino, some distance from Pavlograd, and killed at pits and trenches on the outskirts of the village. While the adults were shot, the children were mostly buried alive.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports from Pavlograd
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1944, regarding the murder and persecution of the residents of the Dnepropetrovsk Region
… After that, they [Party and government activists and Jews] began to be taken outside the city to pits and trenches near the village of Mavrino. There they [the adults] were shot in masses, while the children were buried alive…. It should be noted here that, before being shot, all of them were subjected to cruel torture….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-57-68 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19693
Mavrino
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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