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Murder story of Letnyaya Stavka Jews in the Letnyaya Stavka Forest
Murder Site
Letnyaya Stavka
Russia (USSR)
The Germans occupied the village of Letnyaya Stavka in August 1942, and they immediately began to comb the area for Jewish evacuees from the western regions of the USSR.
According to some sources, the Germans killed 156 Jewish evacuees in the forests near Letnyaya Stavka. The identities of the victims could not be established.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Letnyaya Stavka
…In September 1942, 156 civilians – including women, elderly people, and children – were shot in the area of the Turkmenskoye County, which was occupied by the German Fascists. This was done on the orders of the commander Hoffman. They [the Jews] were buried at three sites in the area of Letnyaya Stavka in the Turkmenskoye County. The victims' first and last names could not be established….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-12 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19921
Letnyaya Stavka
forest
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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