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Murder Story of Sovetskaya Jews at the Sovetskaya Airfield
Murder Site
Sovetskaya
Russia (USSR)
On December 29, 1942, at 6 p.m., the Germans arrested some Jewish families. They took them to a farm in the southern part of the village. Approximately 30 Jews were forced to perform hard labor on the farm. On the next day the Jews were taken to an airfield 200 meters from the farm. The Jews were forced into a shed at the airfield. After that the Germans and local policemen shot the Jews to death. Their bodies were buried in a pit in Armavir.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Sovetskaya
...On December 29, 1942 in the evening … several Jews were used to perform forced labor. The following day a German vehicle arrived at the farm and took away the Jews to an airfield, 200 meters from the farm. There the Jews were forced into a shed where airplanes used to be camouflaged. The Jews were lined up and then the Germans and local policemen shot the Jews to death. Gestapo men took the bodies to the town of Armavir....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-435 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19917
Sovetskaya
Airfield
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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