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Murder story of Talnoye Jews at the Slaughterhouse in the Talnoye Area

Murder Site
Talnoye Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In early or mid-April 1942, some 100 Jews - mostly Jewish women married to non-Jews and their children, as well as a number of elderly Jews - were taken out of Talnoye to the area of a slaughterhouse, and shot there. The perpetrators of this massacre appear to have been men of the German rural police and local auxiliary policemen.
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From "Talnoye" by Vladimir Lidin:
…Russian and Ukrainian women who were married to Jews and had children were forced into a house with three apartments. Aside from the women with children, some old men were also there. The approximately one hundred people forced into these rooms awaited the hour of their death. At 5:00 AM on April 17, 1942 (before Hitler's birthday), everyone in the house was led out into the yard. Children whose fathers where Jews were taken from their mothers. The Moskalenko-Rosenfeld boy was five years old; the girl was three. The punishment of the mothers was crueler than mere murder. The children were flung like logs into a truck, and, upon landing, they struck the floor with a dull thump. Then they were taken away. Next to the city slaughterhouses, on that same terrible and cursed spot which can be seen from the high railroad embankment, all the children were shot….
Ehrenburg, Ilya and Grossman, Wassili. The black book : the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1981, pp. 25-26.
Talnoye Area
Slaughterhouse
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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