On December 10, 1941 76 [Ashkenazi] Jews, including women and children of all ages, appeared at the collection point at the town administration building (according to some sources, a school building) with their belongings, supposedly to be sent to work. They were taken under German guard via Sadovaya Street on the northern outskirts of the town to the nearby hatchery, where they were shot to death with sub-machine guns by a unit from Sonderkommando 11b at an anti-tank trench. According to some testimonies, the little children were put to death by smearing poison on their lips. The victims were buried on the spot by Romanian soldiers. Their belongings were loaded onto trucks and driven to the SD [headquarters].
Related Resources
Written Testimonies
German Reports / Romanian Reports
Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
Yakov Mangupli, the last Krymchak Jew in Belogorsk (Karasubazar), who was born there in 1954, speaks about the murder of the Ashkenazi Jews in Karasubazar:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2011
-We are now at "the Incubator” – this is where the mass shooting of the Soviet civilians took place. They were [Ashkenazi] Jews.
- Yaakov Abramovich, tell us please about “the incubator.” What does that mean?
- It is the outskirts of the city of Belogorsk. There was a trench here, where people were shot.
- Why “the Incubator”?
- Because it was a place to raise poultry… a facility. That’s why people called it that.
- So there used to be an agricultural facility, and near it is the trench where the mass shooting took place?
- Yes.