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Murder story of Pioner Kolkhoz Jews in the Kalinindorf Anti-Tank Trench

Murder Site
Kalinindorf Area
Ukraine (USSR)
According to Soviet reports, 5 collective farmers of the Pioner kolkhoz who were evidently Jews were deported to Kalinindorf and murdered in an anti-tank trench half a kilometer from the village.
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ChGK Soviet Reports from Pioner Kolkhoz
Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews, non-Jews and Soviet POWs in the Kalinindorf district, 1944
…5 people from the village [i.e., the Pioner kolkhoz], 2 men and 3 women, were taken to Kalinindorf village, Kherson District, where they were shot in a Kalinindorf field, at anti-tank trenches 500 meters from the village…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
From the Testimony of Victor Andrushchenko:
Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews, non-Jews and Soviet POWs in the Kalinindorf district, 1944
…Comrade Andrushchenko…testified that, after two Jewish pre-conscription trainees, Yankel Monastyrskiy and Shuto (?) Peysovich (?, probably Peysakhovich) Mushchinskiy returned [to the kolkhoz], they were sent on orders of Police Chief Semyon Spiridonovich Belyi to Kalinindorf village [under the guard] of Ivan Kuzmich Samoylov, who shot Yankel Monastyrskiy in a Kalinindorf field 500 meters from the hospital. He [Andrushchenko] also testified that, on the return of the Jewish family of Bronya Kaplan and [her] two children on November 27, 1941 [to the Pioner kolkhoz], they [too] were sent to Kalinindorf village…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Kalinindorf Area
anti-tank trench
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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