Murder Story of Krasnodar Jews in the 1st of May Grove in Krasnodar (Gas Vans)

On August 17, 1942 the Germans ordered the Jews to report at No. 30 Ordzhonikidze Street for registration. The Jews arrived there [as required] on August 21; they were taken by military trucks to the former city boundary, to the Grove of the 1st of May Grove (today the Chistakovskaya Grove). There most of the Jews had to take off their clothes and then were shot. Some of them were forced to enter German gas vans. The gas vans drove around.... When the vans returned to the site of the mass graves, those who had been inside the vans were dead. The Germans and their accomplices were engaged with the murder until the next day, August 22, 1942. After the liberation of Krasnodar about 500 dead bodies of Jews were found in the mass grave.