On July 12-13, 1942 a number of Jews from Sevastopol were taken in groups by the auxiliary police to the train station area which was located in the small village of Balta-Chokrak near Bakhchisaray. The Jews were collected and then shot to death.

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ChGK Soviet Reports

From the testimony of Zahar Karakoz:

... I was in Bakhchisaray when the Germans shot the [Ashkenazi] Jews and Krymchak [Jews]…. In 1942, after Sevastopol had been occupied, the local police [auxiliary forces] began to take groups of people who were to be shot near Bakhchisaray, to the area of the train station, in the ... small village of Baltachekrak, where they were rounded up and killed….

GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-9-46 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19913

Balta-Chokrak

Murder Site

Russia (USSR)

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