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Murder Story of Krasny Jews in Buriyevshchina
Murder Site
Buriyevshchina
Russia (USSR)
The ghetto was liquidated on April 8, 1942, when all of its inhabitants (between 60 and 100 Jews) were shot to death in a place called Buriyevshchina.
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Written Testimonies
A letter of Boris Sorokin to his brother Mikhael from October 9, 1943
As I informed you in the previous letter, on April 8, 1942 all the Jews of Krasny were shot by the Germans.
GATO, TVER R-570-2-900 copy YVA M.62 / 66
Sophia Glushkina testified on November 9, 1943
... on April 8, 1942, my comrades informed me that a punitive unit had arrived…. The town was surrounded. All the Jews were herded into the yard and forced to strip.... The Germans, when they had completed the execution, returned to the ghetto for rags.
Ehrenburg, Ilya and Grossman, Wassili. The black book : the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1981, p. 255.
Buriyevshchina
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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