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Murder Story of Danilovka Jews in the Danilovka House
Murder Site
Danilovka Village House
Ukraine (USSR)
In summer 1941, shortly after the occupation of the village of Danilovka by German troops, about a dozen Jews who lived there at the time were herded into a single house and shot dead. Both the exact date of this massacre and the identity of its perpetrators are unknown.
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Soviet Reports
Colonel Vasilenko, the commissar of the 53rd Special Motorized Rifle Brigade, reported to the chief of the political department of the 5th Guards Tank Army, Colonel Sharov:
…The entire Jewish population of the village [of Danilovka] – 12 people – was herded into a single house. Two young girls were taken away and raped for several days. Afterward, all the Jews were shot with submachine guns in one house, while two nursing infants had their heads smashed against a corner of the house….
TsAMO, PODOLSK 5TA(332)4982-35 copy YVA M.40 / 98
Danilovka Village House
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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