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Murder Story of Donskoye Jews at the Donskoye Clay Pit (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Central Square in Donskoye (Gas Vans)
Russia (USSR)
On August 25, 1942, the German military began to search for Jews in the village of Donskoye. 112 Jewish civilians were herded into a gas van. The Germans sealed the van hermetically and gassed the Jews to death. Afterward, the corpses were thrown into a clay pit outside the village.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Donskoye
On August 25, 1942, a punitive squad of the Gestapo rounded up 112 people of Jewish origin – women, elderly people, and children – in the square in the village of Donskoye. After being brutalized and tortured, they [the Jews] were herded into a gas van, and died an agonizing death. The corpses of the tortured victims were driven out of the village of Donskoye and thrown into a deep pit.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-12 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19921
Central Square in Donskoye (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
45.447;41.985