Well near the village of Krasnoye. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615529
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Murder Story of Pervomayskoye Jews at the Krasnoye Well (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Krasnoye Well (Gas Vans)
Russia (USSR)
On January 21 (18, according to a German report), 1942 an SD unit from Simpferopol, reinforced by members of the 683th Motorized Military Police Detachment, arrived in Pervomayskoye. All the Jews were assembled at the kolkhoz office and then forced into a gas van, which drove to a well (one kilometer southwest of the village of Krasnoye), into which the bodies of the Jews who had been gassed to death were thrown. On the same day or the next day the bodies of Jews from the village of Kalininskoye and the Maxim Gorki kolkhoz, who had also been gassed to death, were thrown into the same well.
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Written Testimonies
German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
Roman Borodin, who was born in 1922 and lived in Pervomayskoye during the war years, testified:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyi and Tatyana Velichko in 2010
- In December 1941, they called them all to gather in the office.
- Where was the office?
- By the road. Now there’s a store.
- What happened?
- They gathered outside that office, a gas wagon arrived; they put the people into the gas wagon and took them to the well. The well is located on the way to Krasnoye. There were 185 people there.
YVA O.101 / 583
Krasnoye Well (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Well near the village of Krasnoye. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615529