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Murder story of Blagodarnoye Jews in the Stone Quarry in the Blagodarnoye Area
Murder Site
Quarry in Blagodarnoye
Russia (USSR)
After the occupation of Blagodarnoye, in October 1942 the Germans ordered the arrest of the Jews there. On a undetermined date German and local police forces arrested 187 Jews, whom they took to the central train station in Blagodarnoye. The victims had to hand over their clothes and valuables to the guards from the local police forces.
According to several sources the Jews were taken southwest of town to a stone quarry, where local policemen shot them to death.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Blagodarnoye
... Questioning of witnesses of those atrocities committed in the town of Blagodarnoye… revealed that, after the arrival of German forces in the county, following the order of the regional German commander Herman Pfeiffer, the arrest, beating, and shooting of the innocent Soviet civilians began. These civilians were mainly Jews who had been evacuated there [to the town] [and thus] could not be identified and 19 residents of the village; a list of the latters' names is attached....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Quarry in Blagodarnoye
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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