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Murder story of Kadino Jews in the Kadino Area
Murder Site
Kadino Area
Russia (USSR)
The Jews of Kadino were killed in two murder operations during the fall of 1941. According to some sources the shooting was carried out on October 10; according to other sources in November 1941. In this shooting between 300 and 370 Jews were shot not far from the town. Among them there were probably Jews from some nearby villages. Prior to this shooting about 20 older Jews who were unable to work had been killed, although the inscriptions on the memorials say they were murdered later, on October 14, 1941.
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Written Testimonies
Galina Zhukovskaya, who was born in 1927 in Kadino and lived there during the war years, testified:
On the lower street of Kadino a four-meter high fence enclosure was built. From there the Jews were taken to work, to pick potatos. 370 [Jewish] people were shot. A week before the mass shooting, 20 people were shot, the older ones who were unable to work. The shooting took place in November [sic].
Yosef Tsynman " Bab'i Yary Smolenshchiny" [Babi Yar of the Smolensk District] (Smolensk, 2001), p. 342 (in Russian)
Kadino Area
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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