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Murder Story of Loknya Jews at the Machine Tractor Station in Danilovka

Murder Site
Machine Tractor Station in Danilovka
Russia (USSR)
During the night between February 1 and 2, 1942 German forces took the Jews from the house at 11 Sotsialisticeskaya Street where they had been himprisoned to the village of Danilovka. At the machine and tractor station there the Jews were forced into a building without windows. Near the building was a pit. The Jews were forced to procced to the pit in twos and kneel down. They were then shot to death.
Related Resources
The German report from Loknya
Chief of the Security Police and the Security Service Franz Walter Stahlecker February 6, 1942 Operational Situation Report USSR No. 165 Einsatzgruppe A Location: Krasnogvardeisk On February 1, 1942, the last 38 Jews and Gypsies were executed in Loknya.
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 290.
Machine Tractor Station in Danilovka
agricultural machinery and tractor station
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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