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Murder story of Bobrinets Jews in the Bobrinets Area

Murder Site
Bobrinets Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In January - February 1942 the inmates of the Bobrinets ghetto were taken in groups to the southwestern outskirts of the town and shot there in trenches. Before the shooting their valuables were taken by the Germans. The estimates of the number of the victims vary from 344 to 358. They included men, women, and children.
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The Soviet report from Bobrinets
Documentation of the Nazi war crimes investigation committees in the Kirovograd region, for the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of the local population, including Jews and Soviet POWs; documents dated, 1944-1946
... In January – February 1942, following the order of Colonel … and of the head of the local Gendarmerie … the Gendarmerie brutally shot to death 344 people – civilians of Jewish origin - on the southwestern outskirts of Bobrinets. Among the 344 civilians who were shot there were about 120 children age 1- 14, 24 old people, and about 180 women; the rest were men over the age of 20. Before the shooting of these Jewish civilians all of their valuables were taken from them by the gendarmes. The shooting was carried out under the command of 1st Lieutenant Evers, an ethnic German, the head of the Gendarmerie....
DAKO, KROPYVNYTSKYI R-6656-2-1 copy YVA M.52 / 511
Bobrinets Area
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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