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Murder Story of Novo Krestyanovskoye Jews at the Maxim Gorky Collective Farm
Murder Site
Maxim Gorky Collective Farm
Russia (USSR)
Approximately 62 Jews were forced into the clubhouse building of the kolkhoz. They had been collected under the pretext that they were being relocated to a place to work but, instead were taken to a collective farm that had been named in honor of Maxim Gorky. After that they were robbed and then shot to death in a prepared pit. The murder operation was perpetrated by German forces and local policemen.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Novo Krestyanovskoye
...On September 11, 1942, on the order of the German head of the region and the elder of the regional administration of the village of Novokrestyanovskoye, Ivan Stopanovich Bremko, a number of civilians of Jewish nationality were collected, along with their belongings that weighed 32 kilograms. These 62 people were taken to a place of work, the Gorky [collective] farm near the edge of the village. There they were robbed and then shot to death....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Maxim Gorky Collective Farm
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
44.314;44.196