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Murder story of Kakhovka Jews in the Neighborhood No.9 in Kakhovka
Murder Site
Kakhovka 9th District
Ukraine (USSR)
According to [information disclosed at] the interrogation of former police chief of Kakhovka, Jewish men who had been rounded up early in September 1941 on the pretext of being used for forced labor were taken to a site in the 9th district of the town and shot at the lime kilns there.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Martyn Federweiss, who served as the police chief in Kakhovka during the war years, was interrogated at the Soviet juridical proceedings:
… On September 5 or 7, 1941 a group of 40 Jewish civilians was shot. [T]hese civilians were working to help put out a fire at the Kakhovka grain elevator when they were arrested by members of an SS detachment and shot in the 9th district of the town of Kakhovka at the lime kilns.
The arrest and shooting of these 40 people were carried out as a result of a denunciation by Pavel Leontyevich Serov and Aleksandr Andreevich Kiselev, who [falsely] told the SS detachment that those Jews were members of a sabotage unit left behind [by the Soviets] to blow up the Rekord Factory [coop].
For [their] betrayal of these 40 Jews Pavel Leontyevich Serov was appointed mayor of the town of Kakhovka and Kiselev was named director of the Rekord Factory….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-414 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Kakhovka 9th District
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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