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Murder Story of Novo-Minskaya Jews at the Novo-Minskaya Cemetery
Murder Site
Novo Minskaya Cemetery
Russia (USSR)
On November 15, 1942 German Gestapo men from Leningradskaya village took 42 Jews from the Kommunar kolkhoz to the cemetery located in the southern part of the town at the corner of Krasnaya Street (today Lenin Street) and Zubovskiy Street.
There the Germans took away the belongings of the Jews and destroyed their documents. The Jews had to take off their outer clothing and were shot to death in their underwear. Their bodies fell into the pit that had been prepared in advance.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Novo Minskaya
... 42 Jewish people were shot near the village of Novo Minskaya on November 15, 1942; among them were men, women, and children. They were taken to the southern part of the village and were buried in a mass grave west of the cemetery....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-466 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19919
Novo Minskaya Cemetery
cemetery
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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