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Murder Story of Donskaya Balka Jews in Burlatskoye

Murder Site
Burlatskoye
Russia (USSR)
After the summer campaign of the German army in 1942, some Jewish refugees from the west who had sought refuge in Donskaya Balka attempted to flee further eastward within the Soviet Union. The Wehrmacht intercepted them, shooting 17 Jews to death near the village of Burlatskoye.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Donskaya Balka
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 July 30,1943… [t]he village council compiled this report about the deceitful invasion and pillaging behavior of the fascist occupiers, during the evacuation from the county of evacuees of five families including the following Jews 17: 1. Moisey Es. Bednitskiy 2. Dona Elav. Bednitskiy 3. Monya Mois. Bednitskiy 4. Nona Mois. Bednitsky 5. Yuriy Mois. Bednitsky 6. Raphoil Isr. Elimelakh 7. Sofia Elimelakh 8. Aleksandra Raph. Elimelakh 9. Mayor Vernik 10. Feya Vernik 11. Boris Stolyar 12. Bronya Stolyar 13. Anphasa Broyn 14. Chaya Broyn 15. Fanya Broyn 16. Raya Broyn 17. Baya Broyn, who lived in the village of Donskaya Balka, in Gofitskoye County, [in the] Stavropol Kray District, duriing the period of the evacuation. They were caught by a German unit near the village of Burlatskoye, Sotnikovskoye County, [in the] Stavropol Kray District, and all of them - [members of] five families, who numbered 17 people, were brutally shot to death....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Burlatskoye
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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