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Murder Story of Avdeyevka Pervaya Jews at the Veterinary Clinic in Avdeyevka Pervaya
Murder Site
Veterinary Clinic in Avdeyevka Pervaya
Ukraine (USSR)
In March 1942, a group of Jews from Avdeyevka were shot at a pit near the veterinary clinic in Avdeyevka. According to Soviet sources, the group numbered some thirty-five people. The Jews were first arrested and held at the Gestapo headquarters. They were then taken to the murder site area in trucks, and unloaded at a distance of 100 meters from the shooting pit. The victims were forced to approach the pit one by one, whereupon they were shot by a German officer standing next to the pit.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Grigoriy Ishchenko, who was born in 1922 and lived in Avdeyevka Pervaya during the war years, testifies:
In March 1942, I do not remember the exact date, the German Fascists arrested the Jews of Avdeyevka station [sic] and imprisoned them at the police headquarters. On the following day, they were loaded onto trucks, half-naked, and taken to the veterinary clinic of Avdeyevka, where a pit had been dug. The truck halted some 100 meters before the pit, and each Jew was forced to walk to the pit, where a German officer carried out the shooting. In this way, the officer shot some thirty-five people. Afterward, the policemen covered the pit with the shot bodies. I watched all these atrocities committed by the German Fascists from the house of Vera Mikichuk, who lives on 47 Stepnaya Street.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-72-16 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19977
Veterinary Clinic in Avdeyevka Pervaya
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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