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Murder Story of Slavyansk Jews at the Slavyansk Fishing Industry Office
Murder Site
Fishing Industry Office in Slavyansk
Ukraine (USSR)
The largest murder operation against the local Jews took place on December 2-3, 1941. The victims were assembled, apparently in the prison area, and driven to the shooting sites in trucks and buses. According to the ChGK reports, when the trenches near the fishing industry head office, the first shooting location, became filled with dead bodies, the shooters moved to the clay pits near the brick-and-tile factory, and the shooting went on.
Soviet sources refer to the extermination of 420 Jewish families, including women and children, while German documents speak of 300 victims shot on that day.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the judicial proceedings against Kurt Goerke, a former member of Sondekommando 4B; Neustrelitz, 1960:
Some 300 Jews arrived at the assembly point [in Slavyansk]. My job was maintaining order and bringing them to the shooting area. The job was carried out perfectly, and all the Jews had been shot by nightfall. Later that evening, the Wehrmacht brought a surviving Jew who had tried to escape from the pit. The Sonderkommando was also informed that some shouts had been heard both during the shooting and after it. At night, the Sonderkommando returned to the shooting site and heard a Jewess shouting. Both Jews were shot.
BStU HA IX/11 ARCHIV ZUV 6, Akte 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 copy YVA TR.10 / 3178
Fishing Industry Office in Slavyansk
building
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.852;37.609