Murder story of Pliskov Jews in the Fruzinkovskiy Forest

On October 22 (or 23, or in early October, according to different testimonies), 1941 Jews from Pliskov of all ages and both sexes were driven out of their houses and taken to the building which before the war housed the county NKVD office and during the occupation was used as a police station and prison. There the victims were held for several days, abused, and then taken to the Fruzinkovskiy Forest, about 2 to 3 kilometers from Pliskov. There, in the area where before the war a fat-boiling facility that produced soap was located, the victims were ordered to hand over their money and valuables and to strip to their underwear. The victims were then taken in small groups by local auxiliary policemen to the pit where animal carcasses were buried before the war. They were forced to kneel at the edge of the pit and were shot in the back of the head by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C. The number of victims of this massacre was between 400 and 500.

In July (in mid-October, according to some testimonies), 1942 between 200 and 400 Pliskov Jews and Jews brought to Pliskov from surrounding localities were collected in the local police prison, from which they were taken, by Germans and local auxiliary policemen, to the Fruzinkovskiy Forest and shot dead. The perpetrators of this massacre were German rural and local auxiliary policemen.