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Murder Story of Golovanevsk Jews at the Fat Boiling Facility near Golovanevsk

Murder Site
Fat Boiling Facility near Golovanevsk
Ukraine (USSR)
In late September 1941, one of the murder sites of Jews from Golovanevsk who had been assembled in the Pioneer club was located about one kilometer to the northwest of Golovanevsk, in two fat-boiling pits two meters apart. The Jewish victims were thrown into the pits alive. When the pits were full, the [rest of the] people were shot to death from sub-machineguns.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Golovanevsk
Documentation of the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK), 1944 regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in the Odessa Region, 1941-1942
The third site was located half a kilometer from the second one, at two fat-boiling pits two meters apart. The people were also thrown into the pits there. When the pits were full, the people were shot with sub-machineguns and then covered with manure.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-69-78 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19969
Fat Boiling Facility near Golovanevsk
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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