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Murder story of Kirovograd Jews in the Korovograd Prison Courtyard
Murder Site
Kirovograd
Ukraine (USSR)
During the occupation the former building of the teacher-training college on Polevaya Street was used as an SD Prison. Among its numerous inmates who were shot nearby were Jews from Kirovograd - men, women, and children. Some of them were probably people who had survived the mass murder operation in late September 1941. In April 1942 local policemen shot 23 Jews in the inner yard of the prison. The bodies were thrown into an anti-tank trench outside of the prison premises. Other sources report about 100-120 Jewish prisoners being tortured, abused, and later shot in anti-tank trenches near the prison.
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From the testimony of Anna Ignatyeva, who was born in Kirovograd in 1904 and was living there during the war years:
... Few Jews remained alive after the mass shooting of the Jewish population. They were eventually caught one by one and then taken to the prison, where they were shot. No more than a dozen Jews survived....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-66-122 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19713
From the testimony of Ivan Rudnitskiy, who was born in Kirovograd in 1895 and was an inmate of the SD prison during the occupation:
... During my imprisonment I witnessed mass arrests of Jews. The prison cells were filled with them. There were men, women, old men, old women, and children age 6 -10, as well as some older ones. The German executioners brutally abused those Jewish people. Before being shot, the Jews, both adults and children, were taken from their cells into the hall and beaten half dead. Then they were stripped naked, forced to lie down in pits prepared in advance, and shot. Each day the German executioners murdered 100 – 120 people of Jewish origin....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-66-122 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19713
Kirovograd
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