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Murder story of Nagutskoye Jews in the Nagutskoye Ravine

Murder Site
Nagutskoye Ravine
Russia (USSR)
On September 3, 1942 German soldiers entered a house where Jewish refugees were living. The soldiers took valuables and clothing from them from the Jewish victims. On the same day, in the evening, the Germans shot the Jews to death. The victims, three Jewish families consisting of 8 people were killed in a ravine, located approximately half a kilometer from Nagutskoye.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Nagutskoye
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, 1942-1943
... On August 27, 1942, German killers entered the village of Naguty [Nagutskoye]. At the order of the German command, led by Lieutenant Zimmer, the German soldiers entered, on September 3, [1942], German soldiers entered a house where Jewish families were living, robbed them, taking their valuables, and forced them to strip naked. In the evening of September 3, they shot them in a ravine, half a kilometer from Naguty.… Altogether, The Germans shot to death three Jewish families, consisting of eight people....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-11 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19921
Nagutskoye Ravine
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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