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Murder story of Zhuravskoye Jews in the Zhuravskoye Area
Murder Site
Zhuravskoye Area
Russia (USSR)
On October 13, the local police force was ordered to search for Jews in the village of Zhuravskoye. The two local police officers managed to find eleven Jewish individuals, and they began to torture them. After several hours of interrogation and beatings, the local policemen took the Jews to the outskirts of Zhuravskoye, where they shot them dead with a machine gun.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Zhuravskoye
According to eyewitness reports, after taking over the village of Zhuravskoye, the Germans began to hunt for citizens of Jewish nationality. On October 13, the traitors to the Motherland – police officers Yegor Kuzmin and Mikhail Glotov – arrested eleven Jews, acting upon the orders of the German commander of the village of Zhuravskoye. After subjecting them to extended torture, they [the policemen] took them to the outskirts of the village and shot them with machine guns. There were two children among the victims.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-17-11 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19921
Zhuravskoye Area
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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