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Murder story of Tatarsk Jews in the Collective Farm Yard in Tatarsk

Murder Site
Tatarsk
Russia (USSR)
According to some sources, in the second murder operation, that took place at the end of September or in October 1941, about 200 inmates of the ghetto were murdered in the collective farm yard. The third mass murder operation, when groups of 10 – 15 people were shot in a pit, probably also took place in that area. The exact date and the number of Jewish victims in the latter massacre remain unknown.
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The Russian version of Major Shloyme Rabinovich's Yiddish article “Di shoyderlekhe shkhite in Tatarsk” (The Terrible Slaughter in Tatarsk)that was published in Eynikayt on October 21, 1943:
Articles written by writers at the "Eynikayt" newspaper of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the Soviet Union, whose names start with the letters B-F, 1943-1948
... A local resident, Alexander Magidov, was the first one we met. He had just come out of the forest where he had been hiding from the Germans. He is the only Jewish survivor in the town. Not a single one of the other rather large number of the town's Jews remained alive. The German gangsters massacred about 600 old people, women, and children.... Second, 200 people were forcibly collected in the kolkhoz yard, where those pitiful people were beaten with iron rods so that only parts of bodies remained to be thrown into the pit. The third and last time it was even worse. Like rabid dogs, the German villains pursued every Jew. The Jews were dragged to the pit in groups of 10-15 people and murdered there.... The German fascist bandits annihilated the whole Jewish population of Tatarsk town. The bodies of the Jews who were tortured to death - old people, women, children, and infants - lay in pits near the town close to the kolkhoz yard....
GARF, MOSCOW R-8114-1-420 copy YVA M.35 / JM/26223
Tatarsk
Collective Farm Yard
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Lev Sorin was born in Tatarsk in 1923 and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 17264 copy YVA O.93 / 17264