Murder Story of Zaporozhye Jews at the Stadium in Zaporozhye

On November 6, 1941 (other sources date the event to March 21, 1942) around 30 Jewish men and boys from the age of 15, together with some non-Jewish Communists, were collected on the Judenrat premises or, according to other sources, in the yard of the police station, on the pretext of being sent to work. There the victims were guarded by town police and members of the field gendarmerie with Alsatian dogs. From there the arrestees were taken to the shooting site, also under guard. Some sources say the shooting was carried out in a trench at the local stadium surrounded by a high fence, other documents cite a sovkhoz named after Stalin as the murder site. At the distance of 200 meters from the trench the victims were ordered to undress and forced to walk to the shooting site only in their underwear. When they reached the trench, they were forced to lie down and then were shot one after another from sub-machine-guns. The shooting was carried out by Germans, field gendarmerie members, and members of an SS unit.