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Murder Story of Ipatovo Jews on the Bank of the Kallaus River in Ipatovo

Murder Site
Kallaus River Bank
Russia (USSR)
In October or on November 3, 1942, the German authorities collected all of the rest of the Jewish civilians, a total of 84 people, and imprisoned them on the same Collective Farm No. 11. the Jews were held there for several days and then taken on a forced march in the direction of Ipatovo, where the Germans shot the Jews to death next to the bank of the Kallaus River.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Ipatovo
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Ordzhonikidzevskiy Kray, 1942
On October or November 3, [1942] the German-fascist butchers collected some citizens of the County, mainly evacuees [i.e., refugees] -- men, women, infants, and elderly people. They were taken to Collective Farm No. 11. Under the pretext of evacuating them to other areas.... some of them, 86, were taken from the collective farm in Liman and forced to travel along the road to the village Ipatovo. Next to the Kallaus River, …. after being tormented, beaten, and tortured for a long time, they were shot to death with machine-guns....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Kallaus River Bank
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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