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Murder Story of Starodub Jews at the Goloye Boloto Tract
Murder Site
Goloye Boloto Tract
Russia (USSR)
The first murder operation against Starodub's Jews took place either on September 25 or October 1, 1941. Soviet documents reported that about 400 Jewish men of all ages were separated from the other ghetto inmates and taken to the Goloye Boloto tract, where they were shot to death. According to German reports, the group of Jews shot at that time consisted of 272 Jews, both men and women.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
German Reports from Mikhalpol
October 25, 1941
Operational Situation Report USSR No. 124
Einsatzgruppe B: The Jews resisted somewhat turning the village of Bolovshchina [Belovshchina] into a ghetto for the Jews of Sadrudubs {Starodub]. Consequently, 272 Jews and Jewesses were liquidated. Most of them were members of the Communist Party, publicly dangerous elements and political agitators. Among them there was a political commissar who encouraged the Jews to their opposition.
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, pp. 204-205.
Goloye Boloto Tract
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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