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Murder Story of Nevinnomyssk Jews in the Anti-Tank Trench in the Nevinnomyssk Area

Murder Site
Anti-Tank Trench near Nevinnomyssk
Russia (USSR)
On September 25, the Germans and the local police force took 25 civilians, including 23 Jews, to another pit next to the one in which the gassed victims were buried. This, too, was an anti-tank trench located three kilometers from the town. The victims – men, women, and children – had to enter the pit.

The Germans and the local policemen then proceeded to murder the victims with stones and blunt weapons. Afterward, the pit was covered with soil.

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ChGK Soviet Reports from Nevinnomyssk
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 September 25, 1942, 25 people were taken to an anti-tank trench three kilometers from the town of Nevinnomyssk. To avoid unnecessary suspicions, the German-Fascist butchers killed the victims with stones and silent weapons. [Under the impact of the blows], the victims – men, women, and children – lost consciousness, and they were then covered with soil.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-11 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19921
Anti-Tank Trench near Nevinnomyssk
anti-tank trench
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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