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Murder Story of Serp i Molot Kolkhoz Jews at the Zhivodyorovskiy Well
Murder Site
Zhivodyorovskiy Well
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 16, 1941 a unit apparently belonging to Einsatzgruppe D held locked 113 Jews of all ages and both sexes from the Serp i Molot kolkhoz in the collective farm garage. From there the victims were taken the short distance to the Stalin collective farm and shot dead at the Zhivodyorovskiy well.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Serp i Molot Kolkhoz
…On this date the commission carried out an examination of the sites of atrocities of the German-Fascist occupiers. The examination determined that the abandoned Zhivodyorovskiy well on the Stalin kolkhoz was the site where on September 16, 1941 a brutal, evil shooting was carried out. 113 people, consisting of 20 men, 40 women and 53 children were shot…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
The ChGK report from Serp i Molot Kolkhoz
…The citizens Maria Gayduk, Ekaterina Zubakha, Lukeriya Yampolskaya, [and] Ulyana Korneeva testified that 6 members of an SS murder squad arrived in a passenger car on September 16, 1941 and started to drive the Jews out of their houses and then brought them to a place near a garage. [Afterwards] they took them to the Zhivodyorovskiy well, where they [the squad members] shot them. That is how 113 innocent, peaceful Jewish residents, consisting of 20 men, 40 women, and 53 children, were brutally shot.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Zhivodyorovskiy Well
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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