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Murder story of Chernolesskoye Jews in the Chernolesskoye Area

Murder Site
Chernolesskoye Area
Russia (USSR)
Chernolesskoye Area Related Communities
Chernolesskoye
On August 23, 1942, the Germans arrested 35 Jewish evacuees and took them to a pit on the outskirts of the village. There, the victims were forced to undress, and then shot.
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The ChGK report from Chernolesskoye
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
During the occupation of the village of Chernolesskoye in the Novoselitsky County of the Stavropol Krai, the German occupiers committed atrocities against innocent civilians. They shot 35 Jewish people dead. The ages and last names of the victims are known to the County Department of the NKVD of the village of Novoselitskoye.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-11 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19921
Chernolesskoye Area
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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