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Murder Story of Nizhniy Arkhyz Jews at the Nizhniy Arkhyz Orphanage (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Nizhniy Arkhyz Orphanage (Gas Vans)
Russia (USSR)
In December 1942, the Germans began to arrest and kill Jews all over the Zelenchuksky County, and their mobile killing squads entered Nizhniy Arkhyz, as well. There were 21 Jewish children at the local orphanage. One Jewish child was hidden and saved by the Russian children. The perpetrators led the other 20 Jewish children out of the building. They forced the children into a gas van, where they were gassed to death.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Nizhniy Arkhyz
...The German monsters tortured 20 people to death. The victims were children from the orphanage of Nizhniy Arkhyz.
These children were suffocated by the Fascist villains, who herded them into a vehicle and used a special gas.
Out of all the Jewish children at the orphanage in Nizhniy Arkhyz, only a single child survived, being saved by his comrades – the Russian children....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-8 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920
Nizhniy Arkhyz Orphanage (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
43.677;41.457