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Murder Story of Nalchik Jews at the Military Airfield in Nalchik
Murder Site
Nalchik Military Airfield
Russia (USSR)
Between November and December 1942, approximately 600 to 1,000 Ashkenazi Jews of Nalchik were killed in an anti-tank trench 3 kilometers from the city, near the local military airfield.
According to witnesses of the liberation of Nalchik, several bodies of the victims had signs of torture and mutilation.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Nalchik
The place which was chosen by the German administration to shoot the civilian population was an anti-tank trench, which was 3 kilometers from the city, near the airfield.
...After the expulsion of the German-fascist army by the civilians and the Red Army, horrifying graves were discovered.
...Relatives and acquaintances, civilians from the city and other civilians from Kabardino-Balkaria found [the bodies of] more than 600 people who had been tortured, mutilated, and murdered....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-7-109 copy YVA M.33 / JM/21834
Nalchik Military Airfield
Airfield
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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