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Murder Story of Nezlobnaya Jews at the Tractor Plant in Nezlobnaya

Murder Site
Tractor Plant in Nezlobnaya
Russia (USSR)
In December 1942, a massacre took place in the area of the tractor manufacturing plant.

132 civilians, some of them Jews, were murdered in a pit there. According to Soviet sources, some of the victims were killed with heavy blows and with the butts of German rifles, while others were thrown into the pit alive.

70 of the victims were shot on the same day. Each of these was killed separately, being forced to strip naked and climb on top of the bodies of those who had died before. The shooters used machine guns.

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The ChGK report from Nezlobnaya
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
The bodies of 132 Soviet citizens have been found approximately nine kilometers from Georgievsk, in the area of the former tractor manufacturing plant of the brigade of the corrective labor colony. They were shot by the bandits in December 1942. 62 of the 132 lay in a pit, while the other 70 were piled together. At this site, the Fascists shot the people dead, one after another. They would force the victims to climb on top of the mound of corpses, which was growing ever higher. The vast majority of the victims had five to ten bullet wounds, fractured skulls, broken arms and legs. These are the signs of the atrocities committed by the sadistic Fascist cannibals.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Tractor Plant in Nezlobnaya
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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