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Murder Story of Volchansk Jews at the Volchansk Distillery
Murder Site
Volchansk Distillery
Ukraine (USSR)
According to a Soviet report, several dozen “peaceful residents” of the town of Volchansk (most probably Jews), of all ages and of both sexes, were shot in a ravine near the Volchansk distillery. The exact date(s) of the massacre(s) and the identity of the perpetrators are unknown.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Volchansk
…In a ravine near the distillery, the Committee discovered and exhumed… [the bodies of] peaceful residents of the town of Volchansk in the Kharkov District, who were tortured to death and buried alive…, including 40 elderly people, women, and children….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-76-831 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19991
Volchansk Distillery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
50.300;36.946