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Murder Story of Frayleben Jews at the Yudendorf Well
Murder Site
Yudendorf Area
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 18, 1941, some 416 Jews from Frayleben and the surrounding villages were rounded up at a school building in Frayleben, and then taken toward the village of Chkalovo (Yudendorf), a short distance east of Frayleben. The victims were led to a well six kilometers from Yudendorf and shot dead. Their bodies were thrown down the well.
That same month, some seventy (most likely Jewish) refugees from Bessarabia, of all ages and both sexes, who had fled to the Frayleben area after the German invasion of the USSR, were murdered at the same location.
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The ChGK report from the Frayleben rural council:
…In September 1941, there were seventy-three evacuees from Bessarabia (men, women, and children) in the area of the [Frayleben] rural council. The Germans robbed them of their possessions, took them to a well six kilometers from the town of Yudendorf, and threw them down the well alive….
On September 18, 1941, upon the orders of the chief [?], whose last name is unknown, the entire Jewish population of the Frayleben rural council, numbering 416, was assembled in the school building, [then] taken to the same well and shot. Their bodies were thrown down the well. The shooting was carried out by Germans, while the bodies were thrown down the well by [the locals] Fedor Vakka and Naum Kostyuk….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Yudendorf Area
well
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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