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Murder Story of Komsomolskoye Jews at the Komsomolskoye Maternity Hospital
Murder Site
Komsomolskoye Maternity Hospital
Ukraine (USSR)
On December 13, 1942 German rural policemen who came from the town of Kalinovka, the seat of the county bordering on Komsomolskoye County on the south, and local auxiliary policemen surrounded the Komsomolskoye ghetto, where only about 10 skilled workers remained. These workers were called out of the building where they were living, supposedly for a roll-call. When they realized that they were going to be shot, they tried to escape. Very few of them succeeded. Several were shot while they were running; the rest were caught, brutally abused, and then shot in a field near the Komsomolskoye maternity hospital on the outskirts of town.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the Statement to the ChGK by Holocaust survivor Motel Fayer:
…In 1942, on December 13 early in the morning, our camp was surrounded by gendarmes, led by gendarmerie head Kubitz [?] and his assistant Krist [sic?]. First we were taken out as if for a roll-call but then, when we were surrounded, we understood that this was the end of us specialists too, we all decided to run in various directions to save our lives. When we were running 2 people got killed as they ran, 3 people succeeding in escaping, and the other 8 people were caught and shot after being tortured for a long time. Before being, shot all of them were stripped naked and forced to wait a whole day in the cold. This time too the shooting was carried out by the Kalinovka [auxiliary] police in presence of our gendarmes…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1246 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19689; JM/19942
Komsomolskoye Maternity Hospital
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Videos
Polina Belskaya was born in 1931 in Makhnovka (Komsomolskoye) and lived there during the war years (interview in Ukrainian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 7393 copy YVA O.93 / 7393