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Murder Story of Plodovitoye Jews in a Clay Pit near Plodovitoye

Murder Site
Plodovitoye Area
Russia (USSR)
20 Jewish families were shot in a clay pit located one kilometer southwest of the village. The exact number of Jewish victims and the date of the murder operation remain unknown.
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Soviet Reports from Kasplya
תעוד של הוועדה הממלכתית המיוחדת לחקר פשעי הנאצים בברית המועצות מהשנים 1943-1942 על רדיפות ורצח יהודים ב- Kalmykia
...The Fascists captured 100 evacuated families (mostly Jews). The Fascists loaded all the captured - evacuated people onto trucks on the pretext of returning them to their home towns.… The Fascists shot to death twenty families [out of the one hundred] one kilometer southwest of the village of Plodovitoye, in pits of Russian clay....
NARK, ELISTA R-68-1-29 copy YVA M.62 / 85
Plodovitoye Area
clay pit
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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