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Murder Story of Maykop Jews on the Bank of the Belaya River in Maykop
Murder Site
Belaya River Bank in Maykop
Russia (USSR)
Between the end of August and mid-September 1942 the Germans arrested so-called "hostile elements." After the liberation of Maykop the Red Army discovered 2,056 bodies in seven pits on the banks of the Belaya River. 117 of the victims were identified as Jews.
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ChGK Soviet Reports from Maykop
... Between August and September the German gangsters arrested the Jewish population of the city. They were taken to an unknown destination. The arrested Soviet civilians disappeared; not one of them returned to the city. Their fate is unknown....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-4 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19916
Belaya River Bank in Maykop
river bank
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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