On February 13, 1942 Germans shot 20 Yudendorf Jews (as well as 61 Jews from nearby Kamenka village at a well near the Chubarov farmstead, approximately 3 kilometers from Yudendorf. After the shooting the victims (including children and the elderly), some of them still alive, were thrown into the well. The Germans stationed guards at the site to prevent the local population from approaching during the operation. The screaming, crying, and shouting of the victims were heard by the local population for a long time.
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On July 22, 1944, we the undersigned… confirmed the fact that on January 1942 20 Jews were shot in Yudendorf village. They were shot about 3 kilometers from the village... at the Chubarov farmstead.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-9-42 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19683
From the testimony of Khariton Matvuk, who was born in 1892:
On February 13, 1942, two Germans came from Frunze to Yudendorf…. At dawn the Jews were loaded onto carts and taken to the well located on the Chubarov farmstead, approximately 3 kilometers from our village on the way to the Karl Marx kolkhoz. They were shot there. I don't know who shot them.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-9-42 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19683
Chubarov Well
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Murder Site
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Contemporary view of the Chubarov Well murder site area, Yudendorf. Video by Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011
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