Area of the well near Naydorf village. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615578
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Murder Story of Naydorf Jews at the Naydorf Well in Naydorf
Murder Site
Naydorf North
Russia (USSR)
Between April 13 and 27, 1942 9 Jewish families (the women and children only), a total of 38 people, were discovered in Naydorf by the Germans. They were shot to death by an SD unit and thrown into a well located near the village.
During this period Roma (Gypsy) residents from the area and Soviet prisoners of war were also murdered at this location.
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Written Testimonies
German Reports / Romanian Reports
Vera Shevchenko, who was born in 1933 near Naydorf, testified:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2011
- What happened there?
- They shot Jews, sometimes also Gypsies, also prisoners of war, and threw them into the well.
- Do you know that because you heard about it?
- When I was a child, we heard about it. The old people said that even the earth was “breathing.”
YVA O.101 / 575
Naydorf North
well
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Area of the well near Naydorf village. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615578