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Murder Story of Ratndorf Jews at the Ratendorf Well

Murder Site
Rotendorf Area
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 3, 1941, 13 Jews from Ratendorf, together with a non-Jewish woman and her two daughters, were murdered at a well 200 meters north of Ratendorf. The perpetrators were apparently members of Einsatzgruppe D.
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From the ChGK Report on German atrocities in the Voroshilovka rural council area, the Kalinindorf County:
Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews, non-Jews and Soviet POWs in the Kalinindorf district, 1944
…On September 3, 1941, 16 persons of various ages and of both sexes were shot 200 meters north of Rottendorf [sic, for Ratendorf] and thrown into a… well. There was a Russian family among them: Ekaterina Kuznetsova and her two daughters, Luba and Valentina.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Rotendorf Area
well
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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