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Murder story of Glinka Jews in the Glinka Primary School Building
Murder Site
Primary School Building in Glinka
Russia (USSR)
In January 1942 65 Jews from different locations in Glinka County were collected in a former Glinka village primary school building that was being used by the Gestapo. Among them there were 11 Jews - 5 adults and 6 children under the age of 12 - from Sinyaki village. According to some sources there were also refugees from other areas of the Smolensk District. The Jews were shot to death and their bodies were buried in a trench the following morning. Some sources state that the Jews were shot at the Glinka [railway] station.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Glinka
German executioners turned the unfinished two-story brick building of the Glinka primary school into a Gestapo torture chamber where Soviet civilians were shot. In January 1942 the Germans forced all the Jews from Glinka County into the school building and shot them. Among the victims were members of the Pevzner family - the husband, a barber, his wife Basya Naumovna, his 14-year-old daughter Zina, his 11-year-old son Naum, and an infant whom the German executioners murdered in his mother's arms by striking him with a gun butt. The killing was carried out in the evening; the following day, early in the morning, [descendidng like black ravens, the executioners secretly took their victims to a trench and buried them. A total of 65 people were shot to death.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-44-622 copy YVA M.33 / JM/21181
Primary School Building in Glinka
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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