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Murder Story of Maykop Jews at the 1st of May Burial Mound
Murder Site
Burial Mound of the First of May
Russia (USSR)
At the end of August 1942 the Germans arrested Jews who had been evacuated to the Caucasus region. The Germans took these Jews to the Burial Mound of the First of May, near the village of Kuzhoroksaya. Thirty-six Jews - men, women, children, and elderly people- were shot to death at that location.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Maykop
...At the end of August 1942 German forces arrested Jewish families consisting of [a total of]36 members.
The Germans drove the Jews to the First of May Burial Mound(near the village of Kuzhorskaya and shot all 36 of them to death there....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-4 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19916
Burial Mound of the First of May
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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