Grebenki sugar refinery murder site, contemporary view
Lo Tishkakh Foundation, Copy YVA 14616313
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Murder Story of Grebenki Jews at the Grebenki Sugar Refinery
Murder Site
Grebenki
Ukraine (USSR)
On August 25 or 26, 1941 several Jewish families that were still living in Grebenki were taken to the sugar refinery on the eastern outskirts of the town. They were locked up for one or two days in one of refinery’s buildings and then taken to a nearby pit and shot dead. A total of about 40 people were victims of this massacre. The perpetrators were apparently members of Einsatzgruppe C.
Related Resources
Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
The Soviet report from Grebenki
From the Report of Political Department of the 59th Army [of the Red Army] about German Atrocities in the town of Grebenki
On August 25, 1941 the Hitlerites herded together all the Jewish families -a total of 37 people, mostly the elderly, women, and children - into one of the barracks of the sugar refinery. A day later the women and elderly were shot at a large pit, while the small children were thrown into it while still alive.
Those Jewish families who had been tortured to death are buried near a pen on the Soviet [i.e., government] farm…
TsAMO, PODOLSK 101-2153-7 copy YVA M.40 / 1
Grebenki
Sugar Refinery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
49.946;30.180
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Grebenki sugar refinery murder site, contemporary view
Lo Tishkakh Foundation, Copy YVA 14616313