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Murder Story of Yudendorf Jews at the Yudendorf Well
Murder Site
Yudendorf Area
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 18, 1941 Jews of Chkalovo (Yudendorf) were among about 400 Jews of Frayleben rural council who were assembled at Frayleben and then taken to a well 6 kilometers from Ydendorf (Chkalovo) where they were shot dead, their bodies thrown into the well.
From the ChGK Report about the German Atrocities in the Frayleben Rural Council:
… On September 18, 1941 …the entire Jewish population of the Frayleben rural council numbering 416, was collected in the school building, [then] taken to the well [6 kilometers from Chkalovo (Yudendorf)] and shot. Their bodies were thrown into the well. The shooting was carried out by Germans, while the bodies were thrown into 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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