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Murder Story of Otradnaya Jews on the Bank of the Urup River in Otradnaya
Murder Site
Urup River Bank
Russia (USSR)
The Germans caught and arrested several Jewish families during the first days of October 1942.
Until October 10, 1942 they were held in a storage depot at the market in Otradnaya.
On the same day the Germans told the Jews that they were going to be relocated to other areas of the county. The Germans loaded the Jews into two Gestapo vans and drove them to the bank of the Urup River. The Gestapo men took all the valuables and possessions of the Jews and shot them to death. The bodies were thrown into a prepared pit. After the liberation of Otradnaya 483 bodies were found there.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Otradnaya
... One day the Gestapo arrested the Jewish civilians who had been evacuated to all parts of Otradnaya County [and] all of them were taken to the market place….
On October 10, 1942 Gestapo men announced that all the arrested people were going to be taken to a different location. On the same day they were taken to the bank of the Urup River and were shot to death there, two kilometers from the river.
After the liberation of the region from the fascist occupiers, 483 dead bodies, including those of both adults and children, were found during the excavation of a pit....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-464 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19919
Urup River Bank
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Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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