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Murder Story of Minsk Jews on Zaslavskaya Street in Minsk
Murder Site
Zaslavskaya Street in Minsk
Belorussia (USSR)
According to one testimony, on the evening of March 2, 1942 – the first day of the large-scale murder operation in the Minsk Ghetto – Oberfelwebel Richter, the commander of the German police station responsible for the ghetto, ordered approximately 50 inmates to be herded into a house located between Zaslavskaya and Tankovaya Streets, which was then set on fire. Those trying to flee the burning building were shot.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
Soviet Reports
From the judicial proceedings against Hans-Hermann Remmers and Carl Zenner, Koblenz, 1960:
From the testimony of Pinchos [Pinkhas] Dobin (born 1897), December 22, 1945:
…On the evening of March 2, 1942, on the orders of Oberfeldwebel Richter, commander of the "ghetto" police station, 50 Jews were driven into a house on the corner of Zaslavskaya and Tankovaya Streets; the structure was then doused with petrol and set on fire. Those trying to escape the flames were shot….
ZENTRALE STELLE, LUDWIGSBURG B 162/21067 (כרך 1); B 162/21068 (כרך 2); B 162/21069 (כרך 3); B 162/21070 (כרך 4); B 162/21071 (כרך 5); B 162/21072 (כרך 6); B 162/21073 (כרכים 7-9); B 162/21078 (כרך 10); B 162/21079 (כרך 11) copy YVA TR.10 / 3715
Zaslavskaya Street in Minsk
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Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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