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Murder story of Makeyevka Jews in the Mines in the Makeyevka Area
Murder Site
Makeyevka
Ukraine (USSR)
The first group of Makeyevka Jews were shot in the area of the mines. According to Soviet reports, they were taken to the murder site in trucks. Some sources date the shooting operation to December 1941. It claimed the lives of some 500 Jews, including most of the remaining Jewish men of Makeyevka.
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Soviet Reports
Ivan Popov, who had lived in Makeyevka during the war years, testified on January 20, 1946:
From the [beginning of] the German occupation on September 23, 1941 [sic], the Germans ordered the Jewish population to come to the commandant's office, conveying their orders via the town administration and the German commandant.… Then, one fine morning, the same major… loaded all the Jewish population onto trucks, took them outside of town, and shot them all there. Altogether, 500 people from our town [were killed]. Most of them [the Jews] had been evacuated, and those [who were shot] were the people who had remained [in Makeyevka]. The shooting site lies outside of town, near the mines. It has no special name.
TsDAHOU, KYIV 166-2-273 copy YVA M.37 / 1165
Makeyevka
mine
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.076;38.068