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Murder Story of Vorontsovo Aleksandrovskoye Jews at the Barnyard in Vorontsovo Aleksandrovskoye
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Barnyard in Vorontsovo-Aleksandrovskoye
Russia (USSR)
Upon the orders of the German headquarters, Wehrmacht soldiers raided the “Gorky” collective farm in the town and arrested eleven Jews living there.
The arrestees were taken to a barnyard and held there for 3 days without any food or water. Afterward, the Germans ordered the Jews to remove their clothes and lie down in a pit that had been dug outside the barnyard. The Germans then fired down on the people with their machine guns, killing them. When the massacre was over, the pit was covered with soil and mud. According to the non-Jewish eyewitnesses, the victims were of various ages and of both sexes. Their screams could be heard all over the town.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Vorontsovo Aleksandrovskoye
On September 5, 1942, on the orders of the German commander Krainer and the headman I. G. Salminov, the Jewish families living in the area of the “Gorky” collective farm (11 people in total) were taken with their belongings to a barnyard and held there without food for three days. Afterward, they were ordered to hand over their property and strip down to their underwear. They were then taken to a pit that had been dug next to the barnyard; they had to descend into the pit and lie downside by side, whereupon they were shot dead with machine guns.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Barnyard in Vorontsovo-Aleksandrovskoye
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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