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Murder story of Vostochny Jews in the Silage Pit at the Borets Collective Farm
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Silage Pit in Borets Collective Farm
Russia (USSR)
On September 5, 1942, the Germans ordered the arrest of all the Jews residing in the village of Vostochny.
The eleven Jewish evacuees were immediately rounded up and herded into a barn that had previously housed the cattle of the Borets collective farm. The Germans looted the Jews' possessions and valuables.
The Jews were held there for three days without food or clean drinking water. Then, on September 8, 1942, the Jews were forced to strip to their underwear and taken to the local silo pit, at the same collective farm. A truck drove over the victims once, and then the German soldiers shot the wounded Jews and covered the halfdead victims with a layer of soil. Afterward, the German truck drove over them again.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Vostochny
On September 5, 1942, upon the orders of the German commander Krainer and the elder I. G. Salnikov, all the Jewish families living in the area of the Borets collective farm were rounded up and herded into the cattle barn. They were held there without any food for three days. Then, they were ordered to hand over their valuables and strip to their underwear. This done, they were led toward a silo pit and forced to lie down atop each other.
Then, a vehicle drove over them, and the wounded were finished off with guns. A layer of soil was spread over them. During the execution, the moans of the victims could be heard, and the soil [over the grave] was moving.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19920; JM/19921
Silage Pit in Borets Collective Farm
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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