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Murder Story of Rzhev Jews at the Rzhev Airfield

Murder Site
Rzhev
Russia (USSR)
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Rzhev
In June 1943 the Germans took the last 38 inmates of the ghetto to the airfield located east of Rzhev. There the Germans shot the Jews to death.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports from Rzhev
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943, regarding the murder of the Jews of Rzhev in the summer of 1942
…..In the summer of 1943 the Germans collected 38 Jews -- women, children, and old people -- and shot them to death at the airfield…..
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-26-510 copy YVA M.33 / JM/21174
Rzhev
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Murder Site
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