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Murder story of Belokurakino Jews in the Anti-Tank Trench in Belokurakino

Murder Site
Belokurakino
Ukraine (USSR)
On January 18, 1943, during the retreat of the Wehrmacht, German soldiers arrested eight civilians and shot them in an anti-tank trench in the town. The victims included a Jewish mother and her two children, aged four and six.
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The ChGK report from Belokurakino
Documentation of the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK), 1943-1945 regarding crimes carried out in the Aleksandrovka, Belovodsk, Belokurakino, Bokovo Antratsit and Verkhne Teploye area in the Voroshilovgrad Region
At the time of their retreat, the German fascists shot citizens in trenches. [The following persons] were executed by the fascist monsters on January 18, 1943: 1. Fedor Vasilyevich Spisok, born 1989 2. [First name unclear] Ilyitch Ruceshko, born 1891 3. Mariya Gavrilovna Lyshenko, born 1924 4. Mariya Naumovna Gromyko, born 1902 5. Andrey Ivanovich Gromyko, born 1929 Afterward, the German villains shot a Jewish family: a mother and her two children, aged four and six. They were completely innocent, and the Germans shot them solely because they were Jewish.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-56-680 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19692
Belokurakino
anti-tank trench
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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