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Murder Story of Kursk Jews in the Dalniye Parki Neighborhood in Kursk

Murder Site
Kursk Dalniye Parki
Russia (USSR)
From January to February 1942, the Germans arrested 100 to 125 Jews and brought them into the basement of the commandant's office at the Lenin Street 25. The Jews had to leave all their clothes there, except their underwear. After the Jews were brought to the execution place in the quarter Dalniye Parki they were shot to death at the site.

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ChGK Soviet Reports from Kursk
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Kursk, 1942
..... in the period of January – February 1942, the fascist organized a mass annihilation of Jews. Based on the statements of the officials of the city administration, the arrest was regardless of age or sex, without mercy to the little ones; they were taken to the basement and were forced to leave their clothes, besides their underwear and shoes. The frightened people were dragged to darken cars and were brought to the place of the execution…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-29-1 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19926
ChGK Soviet Reports from Kursk
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Kursk, 1942
.....More over I know that in January 1942, following the order of [the German] commandant Flaga... was initiated a mass arrest of Jews, therefore 100 to 125 were shot dead….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-29-1 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19926
Kursk Dalniye Parki
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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