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Murder Story of Novo Glinyanny Jews at the Railway Line in Novo Glinyanny
Murder Site
Railway Line in Novo Glinyanny
Ukraine (USSR)
During the night of October 10, 1941 or, according to other sources, in November 1941 German gendarmes raided the Jewish homes of Novo Glinyanny and forced all of the residents outside. Then the Jews were loaded onto trucks and taken to a bomb crater located two or three kilometers from the village, next to a railway line. There the people were shot to death. Their bodies were thrown into the crater and covered with earth.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Yevdokiya Silakova, who was born in 1902 and lived in Novo Glinyanny during the war years, testified:
During the night of …the enraged German gendarmes and solders entered every house and drove the Jews outside toward trucks. When the trucks were fully loaded, they [the Jews] were taken to a field and shot. I learned about the shooting site later – when the German gangsters had left. It was two kilometers from Novo Glinyanny village, where there was a bomb crater next to the railway line. The bodies were thrown into the crater (pit) and covered with earth....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-66-123 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19713
Railway Line in Novo Glinyanny
railroad
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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