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Murder Story of Kalyus Jews at the Lenin Collective Farm
Murder Site
Lenin Collective Farm near Kalyus
Ukraine (USSR)
On August 20, 1942 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen surrounded the ghetto. Its inmates were told to assemble at the town's square on the pretext that the ghetto was being liquidated and they were being sent to the ghetto in Novaya Ushitsa. Those who had hid but were found were beaten and taken to the square. Then all of them were taken under guard to a ravine near a field of the Lenin Collective Farm, where a pit had been prepared. Upon their arrival at the site the victims were made to sit near the pit and a selection was carried out. A group of able-bodied men was set aside, others - mainly women, little children, and old people - were taken to the pit and shot to death by SD and Gendarmerie men. According to the German report of August 20, 1942 of Petrich, the district Gendarmerie chief of Bar, 240 Jews from Kalyus were murdered. A Soviet (ChGK) report from 1944 indicates that 540 Jews were shot to death at the site.
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The Soviet report from Kalyus
We, the undersigned …. compiled the following report: today we carried out the opening [of the graves] and the exhumation of the bodies of people shot to death by the German occupiers. Thus, it was established that: … a mass grave was dug in the town of Kalus on the eastern side of a field of the Lenin kolkhoz, the grave is about 8 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 3 meters deep. There were 540 bodies in the grave. … In all the graves the bodies were naked, i.e, before the shooting [the victims] were forced to strip naked. The doctors who examined the bodies established that these civilians were killed by submachine-gun fire directed at the head, many were killed … by rifle butts since the skulls of many victims were smashed … the children were thrown alive into the pit. … The murder of the civilians, that was supervised by Shtefen, the Gebietskommissar [regional commissar] of Bar … took place mainly in August-September 1942. …
TsDAHOU, KYIV 166-3-215 copy YVA M.37 / 1201
Lenin Collective Farm near Kalyus
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.633;27.316
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Moyshe Rekhtman was born in Kalyus in 1927 and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 8545 copy YVA O.93 / 8545