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Murder Story of Imeni Kaganovicha Kolkhoz Jews at the Yurkino Well

Murder Site
Yurkino Well
Ukraine (USSR)
In mid-September 1941, 71 Jews (of all ages and both sexes, from the Kaganovich collective farm were taken to an abandoned well at the nearby Yurkino state farm and shot dead there. The perpetrators were members of Sonderkommando 10a of Einsatzgruppe D.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Imeni Kaganovicha 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
…On this date the Commission carried out an examination of the sites of atrocities of the German-Fascist occupiers. The examination established that… an abandoned well on the territory of the Berislav Yurkino grain-growing state farm was the site where the shooting took place. A total of 71 people - 22 men, 29 women, and 20 children - were shot dead….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Yurkino Well
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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