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Murder Story of Minkovtsy Jews at the Fat Boiling-Facility in the Minkovtsy Area
Murder Site
Minkovtsy Area
Ukraine (USSR)
According to testimony, after the mass shooting at the Glubochek pits, a group of about 25 Jewish young people who had been selected during the shooting was made to collect and sort the clothes of the victims. Upon their return to Minkovtsy, along with the remaining Jews of the town, they were made to perform hard labor. Apparently some time afterwards, they were shot to death at the fat boiling site located beyond the north-west outskirts of the town.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Minkovtsy
From June 2 to June 8, 1944 the county State Extraordinary Commission, in the presence of medical experts - doctors from the Minkovtsy County hospital… excavated the graves and conducted a medical examination of the bodies exhumed from the burial places of the Soviet civilians who were murdered by the Germans and it established [the following]:
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b) north-west of the outskirts of Minkovtsy, near the fat boiling site, 24 bodies [were found] in one grave.
TsDAHOU, KYIV 166-3-215 copy YVA M.37 / 1201
Minkovtsy Area
Fat Boiling Facility
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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