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Murder Story of Kalinindorf Jews at the Kalinindorf Well
Murder Site
Kalinindorf
Russia (USSR)
According to one testimony, in November 1941 a truck took little children from some other places to an abandoned well in the center of the village. They were shot to death by a German detachment and their bodies were thrown into the well.
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Written Testimonies
Leontil Kiskin, who was born in 1938 in Kalinindorf, related:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2011
-We now stand near the well into which little children were thrown after having been shot by the Nazis in November 1941.
- How many children were there?
- A truck full.
- What kind of well was that?
- It was already abandoned by then. Beforehand, it had been used for drinking water.
- Has it been preserved?
- No, it’s no longer there. We are standing where it was.
- So now, it’s just grass.
- How did you learn about the children?
- Olga Grigorievna Gochman, a resident of this house, saw this execution through the keyhole of her storehouse.
- Did she tell you?
- Yes.
YVA O.101 / 552
Kalinindorf
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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