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Murder Story of Ladozhskaya Jews on the Bank of the Kuban River in Ladozhskaya
Murder Site
Kuban River Bank in Ladozhskaya
Russia (USSR)
On December 17, 1942, German forces arrested the Jews who had fled from the western parts of the Soviet Union to Ladozhskaya County.
The Jews were taken south of the city to the bank of the Kuban River.
Approximately 3,000 Jews were shoot to death in a pit near the bank of the Kuban River. Some witnesses reported that the water of the river turned red on that day.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Ladozhskaya
... All the Jewish civilians in Ladozhskaya County were rounded up and murdered, as many as 3,000 of them. I managed to survive and hide until the arrival of the Red Army....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-8 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19916
Kuban River Bank in Ladozhskaya
river bank
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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