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Murder Story of Velikiye Luki Jews at the Velikiye Luki Cemetery

Murder Site
Cemetery in Velikiye Luki
Russia (USSR)
On September 1, [or October according to other sources] 1941 several dozen Jews were shot to death at the Kazan or the Kolomensk cemetery.
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The ChGK report from Velikiye Luki
דוחות של ChGK על רצח יהודים ב- Velikiye Luki דיכוי וחיסול של האוכלוסיה המקומית ושל שבויי מלחמה סובייטים במחוז Kalinin מהשנים 1943-1944
...Toward the end of the occupation all Jewish settlements [were liquidated]...a total of about 50 people were brutally shot to death....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-26-559 copy YVA M.33 / JM/24651
The ChGK report from Velikiye Luki
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews from Velikiye Luki, 1941-1943
…With the occupation of the city, the Germans started to eradicate the Jewish population. All the Jews were registered. The Germans established a tight control over the activities of the Jewish population…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-26-4 copy YVA M.33 / JM/21174
Cemetery in Velikiye Luki
cemetery
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
56.346;30.538