Murder Story of Voroshilovsk Jews at the Voroshilovsk Psychiatric Clinic (Gas Vans)

During the night between August 14 and August 15, 1942 the German perpetrators murdered approximately 500 Jews. The Germans ordered the Jews who were inhabitants of Voroshilovsk to appear to be registered and receive armbands. They were given until late in the evening of August 14. Those who showed up were then put into the Gestapo prison, where they were kept without food and water. Between late in the evening and early the next morning the prisoners were taken by truck to the psychiatric clinic at 441 Lenin Street. There some of them were shot and some asphyxiated by gas vans. Their bodies were thrown into a half-filled pit that already contained some non-Jewish victims. Some days earlier the Germans had murdered the staff members and patients of the clinic.