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Murder story of Danilovka Jews in the Lukyanovka Anti-Tank Trench

Murder Site
Lukiyanovka
Ukraine (USSR)
On April 23, 1943, Romanian policemen took 3 Jews from Danilovka (Grigori Levin, his wife Fira, and their son Leonid), along with 9 non-Jewish local residents, south of the village, to an anti-tank trench located between the Lukyanovka farmstead and the village of Nechayannoye. After subjecting the arrestees to brutal abuse, the Romanians killed them all with shots to the head.
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The ChGK report from Danilovka
חקירת פשעי הנאצים בברית-המועצות:  גורל יהודים ואוכלוסיה אזרחית שסייעה ליהודים אזורי VASELINOVO ו-VARVAROVKA.
…[O]n April 23, 1943…, the bodies of 12 completely innocent residents of the village of Danilovka were found, covered with a thin layer of soil, in an anti-tank trench between the village of Nechayannoye and the Lukyanovka farmstead, north of Nechayannoye and south of Lukyanovka; they had been tortured to death by the Romanian gendarmes. The exhumation of the bodies has revealed the following: The bodies of the murder victims were disfigured; the bones of their limbs were broken; their ultimate cause of death was bullet wounds to the head. The list of names of the identified victims is attached below: …10. Grigori Markovich Levin 11. Leonid Grigoryevich Levin 12. Fira Mikhailovna Levina....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-68-178 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19716
Lukiyanovka
anti-tank trench
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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