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Murder Story of Kirovograd Jews on the Rovenskaya Road
Murder Site
Rovenskaya Road
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 30, 1941 the Jewish population of Kirovograd - women, children, and old people - were taken to several collection points in various parts of the city. Then the victims were loaded in groups onto trucks and taken along Rovenskaya Road to an anti-tank trench. There they were shot; the younger children and old people were beaten with sticks and then thrown into the pit. According to different sources, the number of the victims in this murder operation ranged from 3,200 to 4,000.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Etnya Savchuk (née Vainshtein), who was born in 1931 in Kirovograd and lived there during the German occupation
... First it was announced that all the kikes should take their valuable items with and gather at the square near the local synagogue. The mass shooting of the Jews took place on September 29, 1941. They were taken to the shooting by truck. About 4,000 were shot. Only a few people escaped the shooting and remained alive....
Marina Mikhalchuk, ed., We Survived: The Kirovograd District and Kirovograd Residents during the Years of the Holocaust, Kirovograd, 2011, p. 61 (Ukrainian).
Rovenskaya Road
street
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.517;32.233