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Murder Story of Kharkov Jews in the Former Kharkov Synagogue on Grazhdanskaya Street
Murder Site
Kharkov
Ukraine (USSR)
On December 14 (or 15, according to Soviet reports), 1941, the German military commandant of Kharkov, Generalleutnant (Lt.-General) Alfred von Puttkamer, issued an order requiring all the Jews of Kharkov to move into a ghetto, which had been set up in the barracks of the former tractor and machine tool plants. Some 400 Jews who were unable to walk – mostly little children, as well as elderly and disabled people – were locked in the building of the former synagogue on Grazhdanskaya Street, on the left bank of the Kharkov River, and left there to freeze and starve to death.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the letter of Tina Feldgun to Ilya Ehrenburg:
…There was a Jewish prayer house (Minjen [minyan]) on Grazhdanskaya Street. In those days, all the elderly Jews gathered there to pray to God. The policemen locked the doors [of the synagogue] from the outside. In those terrible days, it was impossible to go past this building. The heart-rending moans and cries of these elderly people were heard in the street. All of them starved and froze to death there, in great agony….
YVA P.21 / 52
Kharkov
synagogue
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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