Monument at the murder site, general view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2013.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615615
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Murder Story of Lyuban Jews at the Lyuban Machine Tractor Station
Murder Site
Lyuban
Belorussia (USSR)
On December 4, 1941 Germans and local policemen surrounded the ghetto and took 700 ghetto inmates to pits near the local MTS (machine-tractor station), where they were shot to death.
ChGK Soviet Reports from Lyuban
.... German murder squads carried out the shooting of innocent civilians, mostly Jews, at the machine-tractor station on the outskirts of the village of Lyuban. One pit, 8 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 2.5 meters deep, has been discovered; 700 people are buried here. A second pit, 4 meters long, 3 meters wide, and 2.5 meters deep, contains the remains of 250 people. A third pit, 3.5 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, and 2 meters deep, contains the bodies of 200 people who were covered over there in 1943.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-82-5 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20000
Lyuban
agricultural machinery and tractor station
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
52.797;28.006
Monument at the murder site, general view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2013.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615615