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Murder Story of Belgorod Jews in Mikhailovka
Murder Site
Mikhaylovka
Russia (USSR)
An additional murder operation took place at the beginning of February 1943. 400 Jews were put, along with some non-Jews, into the city prison. The conditions in the prison were terrible: the sanitary conditions were wretched and the prisoners were not allowed any food. On February 3 the non-Jewish prisoners were released, bit the Jews had to stay, among them young families with infants. On February 4 the Germans loaded the Jews onto trucks and took them to the village of Mikhailovka, where they were forced into a barn. Then the Germans shot these Jews to death.
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Soviet Reports
Elisaveta Vetrova, who lived in Belgorod durinng the war years, testified:
March 10, 1943:
In the prison cells next to me were more than 400 Jewish people -- women, men, and infants, who were not released from their cells even when they had to go to the bathroom.
...you could hear everything, like their crying and pleading, such as "please give us little bit of bread"….
On 04.02.1942 people, including the Jews, were put onto trucks and driven to Mikhailovka village. The residents of the village stated at that 12 o'clock the people (from the trucks) were burned to death in a barn.
TsAMO, PODOLSK 32-11302-104 copy YVA M.40 / 133
The Soviet report from Belgorod
Report about the brutality of the fascist occupiers in Belgorod
March 1943:
At the beginning of January 1942, following the order of the German-fascist administration, soldiers and officers forced their way into the appartments of the Jews and pushed them out onto the street. After that they were forced into a barn. They (the Germans) doused the barn with oil and burned them (the Jews) alive.
TsAMO, PODOLSK 32-11302-104 copy YVA M.40 / 133
Mikhaylovka
storeroom
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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