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Murder Story of Akhtyrka Jews at the Pit near the Akhtyrka Church of Michael the Archangel
Murder Site
Pit near the Church of Michael the Archangel
Ukraine (USSR)
Immediately after the occupation of Akhtyrka by German troops, the German administration set up a local police unit. Its men combed the town for Jews, arresting some thirty-two persons. The arrestees were forced to do hard labor, and were tortured and humiliated during their work. On February 6, 1942, the thirty-two Jews were shot dead by the local Ukrainian police unit at a trench near the Church of Michael the Archangel in the northern part of the town.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report form Akhtyrka
A group of Jewish citizens, thirty-two people in total, were singled out for special abuse. Their mass grave lies at the Fourth Hundred [place name], near the Church of Michael the Archangel. The Jewish victims include Halperin, a highly educated physician who was very popular in Akhtyrka, and a two-week-old baby, who was brutally murdered.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-74-487 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19984
Pit near the Church of Michael the Archangel
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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