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Murder Story of Ipatovo Jews at the Grain Storage Pit in Ipatovo
Murder Site
Grain Storage Pit in Ipatovo
Russia (USSR)
In the early morning of one day in August or September 1942, German authorities took 54 Jews to a grain storage pit located near the ruins of a grain elevator that had been destroyed. All of these Jews were shot to death. Afterward, the Germans covered the bodies of the victims with burned wheat husks.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Ipatovo
Moreover, according to the evidence and accounts of the civilian residents of the village of Ipatovo Anna Fomenko and railroad worker P. E. Oljuch it is clear that, in mid-August or mid-September [1942], the Germans collected a large group of Soviet civilians, who numbered approximately 54, including 19 small children. In the early morning they were taken to a grain storage pit next to a burned down grain elevator, and were shot to death after having been tormented, beaten, and tortured. They were covered with burned wheat [husks].
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Grain Storage Pit in Ipatovo
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
45.717;42.914