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Murder story of Shostka Jews at the Shostka Factory No.6
Murder Site
Shostka
Ukraine (USSR)
In the early winter of 1942, probably during the first months of the year, the German SS and the local authorities arrested 746 citizens – including both Jewish and non-Jewish civilians, as well as Communist activists – and took them to Factory No.6.
The arrestees were divided into groups of 15-18, and then taken to twenty different pits in the area of the factory. Once there, the people had to strip naked and hand over their shoes, whereupon the SS shot them dead with machine guns. According to Soviet sources, 250 bodies were cremated, to make room for additional victims.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Shostka
...In 1942, I was working at Factory No. 6. Very often, I saw tracks of vehicles at the entrance to the factory. Usually, I would ask the factory guards – the volunteers and policemen – what happened at the factory during the night. The guards would reply that, during the night, people (Jews, Partisans, POWs, and other Soviet citizens) were brought to the factory to be shot. The vehicle would bring 6-30 people each time. It drove up to the guard post, and the people had to enter it. There, they had to undress, and then they would be taken in groups, half-naked, to the stone shelter and the storeroom, where they were shot by Germans, and occasionally by the volunteers. Very often, police chief Svitsinsky took part in the shootings. Even the volunteers and police officers would wonder about Svitnitsky's behavior. The victims' best clothes would be confiscated by the Germans; the rest of the clothes would be divided between the volunteers and the policemen.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-74-513 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19985
Shostka
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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