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Murder Story of Chernevtsy Jews at the Moyevka Machine Tractor Station
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Machine Tractor Station near Moyevka
Ukraine (USSR)
On July 24, 1941, only three days after the start of the occupation of Chernevtsy, Wehrmacht troops took about 10 hostages from the male Jewish population of Chernevtsy. The pretext for this hostage-taking was assistance offered by the town’s Jews to Soviet prisoners of war. After being held captive for some time, the hostages were taken to the village of Moevka, just south of Chernevtsy, and shot dead, together with several dozen Soviet POWs, near the local machine-tractor station.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Abram Monastirskiy, who was born in 1880 and lived in Chernevtsy during the war years, testified:
…On July 24, 1941 10-12 Red Army prisoners of war were taken through the town of Chernevtsy. The Jewish residents of the town of Chernevtsy brought out bread and water to the prisoners. The German commanders ordered that hostages be taken in the town. 13 people were caught on the street or in their apartments in the town. They were taken to the area of te Chernevtsy MTS, brutally annihilated there, and buried along with the Red Army prisoners of war…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1255 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19689
The ChGK report from Chernevtsy
…On July 24, 1941 12 innocent Soviet civilians and 40 prisoners of war were shot in the courtyard of the Moevka MTS…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1255 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19689
The ChGK report from Chernevtsy
…On July 24, 1941 the Germans led [through Chernevtsy] a group of about 40 Soviet prisoners of war. The German guards, who disapproved of [local] residents giving food to the prisoners of war, started to arrest men in their homes, taking them hostages on the pretext of [aiding] one of the prisoners to escape. 12 people who had been arrested were shot after prolonged torture, together with the prisoners of war, in the courtyard of the machine-tractor station and buried there. The victims ranged in age from the elderly to a 15-year old youth…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1255 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19689
Machine Tractor Station near Moyevka
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Naum Gelman was born in 1928 in Chernevtsy and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 31625 copy YVA O.93 / 31625