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Murder story of Novoselitskoye Jews in the Novoselitskoye Ravine

Murder Site
Novoselitskoye Ravine
Russia (USSR)
October 15 and 16 1942 German and local police forces arrested 60 people, the vast majority of whom were Jewish. They were taken to a ravine outside of town and shot to death there with machine–guns.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Novoselitskoye
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
… After long torture and humiliation by German soldiers and Gestapo men and their [local] accomplices named Gorbachenko, Deribas,and Bachurina, [on] the 15th and 16th October 60 people, were shot to death and thrown into a ravin;, [they {the victims] were civilians from the center of the county, from the village of Novoselitskoye....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-11 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19921
Novoselitskoye Ravine
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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