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Murder story of Dinskaya Jews in the Clay Pit at the October Collective Farm

Murder Site
Clay Pit at the October Collective Farm
Russia (USSR)
One day in September 1942, the German authorities, with the help of local auxiliary policemen, arrested some fifty Jews in the village of Dinskaya. They were loaded onto several horse-drawn carts and transported to the October collective farm. There, the Jews were taken to a clay pit at the brick factory of the collective farm, ordered to undress, and shot dead with machine guns.
Related Resources
The ChGK report from Dinskaya
Documentation of the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK), 1943-1944 regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Krasnodar Kray, 1942
Sometime in September 1942, at 11 or 12 AM, I saw a wagon with two horses on the road near the Kuban [River], in the direction of Krasnoselskoye. There were local police officers (I do not know their names) on the wagon, and the commander, a German officer (I do not know his name, either), was driving along in a motor vehicle. They were transporting a group of people; I do not remember how many there were. In terms of nationality, they were Jewish. They included men, women, and children of various ages. They were taken to the clay pit of the brick factory of the October collective farm. I heard several rounds of machine gun fire. 30-40 minutes later, I saw the same horse-drawn cart returning to the village of Dinskaya. Now, there were some policemen in the cart, and they were singing songs.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-16-464 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19919
Clay Pit at the October Collective Farm
clay pit
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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