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Murder Story of Kakhovka Jews in Slobodka
Murder Site
Kakhovka Slobodka
Ukraine (USSR)
Some of the Jews of Kakhovka who were murdered in the large-scale massacre during the second half of September or in October (according to different Soviet and German sources) 1941 were taken to the Slobodka neighborhood on the northwestern outskirts of Kakhovka and shot there. It is unknown how many Jews were murdered at this location. The perpetrators were members of Sonderkommando 10a of Einsatzgruppe D and German and local auxiliary policemen.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Semyon Kovalev, who was born in 1898 and lived in Kakhovka during the war years, testified:
… Around September 10 [1941] the chief of police of the town of Kakhovka, a German named Ruf, ordered all the Jewish civilians of the town to appear at the police station to be registered. At least 600 Jews, including old people, children, and women with nursing infants, assembled on that day at the police station. All those assembled were divided into three groups… The third group was taken to Slobodka on the northwestern outskirts of the town of Kakhovka. All of these people were shot and their bodies thrown into an anti-tank trench or a well….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-414 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Kakhovka Slobodka
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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