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Murder story of Rovnoye Jews in the Korchinina Ravine
Murder Site
Korchinina Ravine
Ukraine (USSR)
In September – October 1941, according to some sources also in February 1942, the Jews of Rovnoye were taken in a column to the Korchinina (in other sources it is referred to as the Korchakova or Korchakin) Ravine, 3 kilometers from the town. There the people were divided into groups and placed close to the pit and facing it. As soon as each row of people was shot and fell into the trench, the gold teeth and valuables were removed from the dead bodies. According to different sources the number of the victims ranged from 48 to 100.
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From the testimony of Vladimir Nikolayenko, who was born in 1926 and lived in Rovnoye during the war years:
The Germans collected all the Jews and shot them in the area of the Korchakin Ravine – which was about 3 kilometers from the village. The Jews were taken in a column. Judging by its length, there were at least a hundred people – men, women, and children. This took place in September or October 1941. When the Jews were being shot, we could hear the shooting quite well. Peter [a German who worked as a guard] told us in his poor Russian that the people were divided into groups and placed close to a pit, that they were made to face the pit and then shot in the back from guard towers, and that, as soon as those in the first row fell into the pit, a group of people ran from covered trucks, put ladders down into the trench, and then descended there to pull out gold teeth and to tear off earrings and rings from the bodies.
From Marina Mikhaylyuk, ed., We Survived: The Kirovograd District and Kirovograd Residents during the Years of the Holocaust (Kirovograd, 2011), p. 119 (Ukrainian)
Korchinina Ravine
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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