Murder Story of Otradnaya Jews on the Armavir Road (Gas Vans)

In August 1942 a group of Jewish families, about 40 people, tried to escape from the Germans. The Germans caught the Jews and took them back to Otradnaya. On the next day these Jews were transported to the village of Sovetskaya. According to witnesses, the families were held there for three days without food or water. On the fourth day the Germans took them in a gas van toward the city of Armavir. In Armavir their dead bodies were thrown into an anti-tank trench and buried with other victims from Armavir and the surrounding area.