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Murder Story of Staro Minskaya Jews at the Starominskaya Brick Factory
Murder Site
Brick Factory in Starominskaya
Russia (USSR)
On August 5, 1942 the German administration ordered the Jews to appear at the local police station in three days. Although the occupiers told the Jews that they were going to be relocated, they took the Jews by truck to a brick factory on Kommunisticheskaya Street, where 63 of them were killed.
According the the results of an exhumation performed after the settlement was liberated, the victims had been killed by stabbing and shooting or, in some cases, by blows from rifle butts.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Staro Minskaya
... According to the order of the German chief commander the Jews were ordered to gather in three days at the local police headquarters. They were told that they were going to be relocated.
In the evening the Germans took the Jews in closed trucks to Starominskaya Station No. 2, where they were shot to death and thrown into a pit....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-436 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19918
Brick Factory in Starominskaya
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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