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Murder story of Bezlesny Jews in the Silo Pit in the Bezlesnyi Area

Murder Site
Silo Pit near Bezlesnyi
Russia (USSR)
Sometime after the occupation of Bezlesny, probably in late November 1942, the German administration ordered a registration of the Jewish population of the rural community.

Seventy-five Jews, mostly women and children, showed up at the German administration building. The Germans robbed them on the spot, taking away all their belongings, and then led them to a silo pit at the Bezlesny farm. The Jews were forced to strip naked, and were then methodically shot dead by the Germans, who used machine guns. Two elderly Jewish women tried to hide, but were arrested, tortured, and murdered in a barn at the farm. Their bodies were left unburied near the silo pit.

One Jewish woman survived this massacre, and she left the killing site during the night, after the killers had gone away. However, she was caught on the next day, and executed by the German soldiers.

The Soviet report from Bezlesny
דוחות סקירה על רצח יהודים במחוז Smolensk, ב- Caucasus וב- Krasnodar Kray בשנים 1942-1943
The cheerful, prosperous residents of the Soviet Kuban region knew about the atrocities of the German fascist villains only from hearsay. However, immediately after the occupation of the village by the German beasts on August 6, 1942, they were subjected to all manner of violence. The German scoundrels, along with their collaborators, showed their brutality, especially when they exterminated the innocent Jewish residents at this farm. Seventy-five Jewish individuals – children, women, and elderly people – were executed here, having been robbed first. After the execution, their bodies were thrown into a silo pit. One citizen from this group, Anna Abramovich, was only lightly wounded, and she tried to escape to safety. She climbed over the bodies during the night, but was executed by the fascist monsters on the following day. A 75-year-old woman named Frida Schtamberg tried to escape, but was thrown into a barrack. After being subjected to much torture and abuse, she was killed with five shots. Her body was thrown to the dogs, and her remains were left outside for three weeks. A 60-year-old civilian named Newmark was slaughtered by the German monsters with a knife, and then shot. Her body was left out in the open for a week.
TsAMO, PODOLSK 32-11302-153 copy YVA M.40 / 162
Silo Pit near Bezlesnyi
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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