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Murder Story of Plodovitoye Jews in the Plodovitoye Woodland
Murder Site
Plodovitoye Area
Russia (USSR)
On August 5, 1942, a group of evacuees, most of them Jewish, was detained by the Germans in an area seven kilometers from Plodovitoye. The Germans took them to their headquarters in the nearby woods. On August 14, 1942 18 Jews from this group were shot, apparently in the same woods, while the rest of the Jews, the exact number remains unknown, were brought to Plodovitoye village. Some sources say later, on August 20, they were sent off to some unknown destination. Their subsequent fate is unknown.
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Soviet Reports from Plodovitoye
….The operation took place on August 14, 1942, when 18 Jewish people were shot by the German fiends seven kilometers from Plodovitoye village….. On August 5, 1943 [sic] eleven carts with evacuated Jews passed by a place seven kilometers from Plodovitoye village. When we were passing them, they encountered a car with Germans in it. The Germans detained the evacuated Jews and ordered them to return to the woods near ... [not clear]. The German headquarters was located in the same woods. The Jews remained under guard in these woods until August 14 and on August 14 eighteen of them were shot. The rest were taken to Plodovitoye to the German commandant there. On September 20 the latter sent them [the Jews] to some unknown destination. I know nothing about their fate afterwards.
NARK, ELISTA R-68-1-29 copy YVA M.62 / 85
Plodovitoye Area
forest
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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