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Murder Story of Krasnodar Jews at the Krasnodar Measuring Equipment Factory (Gas Vans)
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Measurement Equipment Factory in Krasnodar
Russia (USSR)
According to several sources some Jews escaped being killed in the first mass murder on August 21 and 22, 1942.
The Jews were systematically searched, arrested, and taken to the measurement-equipment factory at No. 5 Zipovskaya Street.
They were forced to enter gas vans and the vans drove to Sovkhoz [State Farm] Number 1 of Krasnodar, outside the city. Apparently 30 to 60 Jews were killed in this way between December 1942 and February 1943.
In the same time period, the German mobile killing squads, the German military and the local police forces searched for the Jews in the throughout Kaganovichi County and gassed them to the death at Measurement-equipment factory in Krasnodar as well. 64 Jews and Karaim and buried them among the other Jewish and non-Jewish victims at the factory in a pit.
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From the trial of Kurt Christmann, Munich 1980
On a day that it has not been possible to determine, between December [1942] and the beginning of February 1943, the accused was responsible for a murder operation involving a gas van. This operation took place in the courtyard of the command building. The gas van drove up to the door of the basement. The accused ordered that the gas van be filled with people so that the gas would have an immediate effect. Therefore, 30 people were forced into the gas van.
ZENTRALE STELLE, LUDWIGSBURG B 162/14621 copy YVA TR.10 / 890
German POW Wilhelm Treusch, Krasnodar 1943
“Someone told me that the Germans shot many people in Krasnodar; among those killed were women and children. The dead were buried somewhere around Krasnodar.”
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19917
Measurement Equipment Factory in Krasnodar
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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