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Murder Story of Karasubazar Jews at the Mariano State Farm (Gas Vans)

Murder Site
Mariano State Farm (Gas Vans)
Russia (USSR)
Anti-tank trench where the Krymchaks of Karasubazar were buried. Photographer: 	Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011.
Anti-tank trench where the Krymchaks of Karasubazar were buried. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615590
On January 17 and 18, 1942 468 Krymchaks were ordered to assemble at two collection points on Ananyevskaya and Sadovaya Streets. On each street a gas van was parked. The people were loaded in groups of about 50 into these two gas vans. When they started to move, the people were asphyxiated. The bodies were thrown out and buried 1 kilometer south of the town, at an anti-tank trench on the Mariano state farm. Today this site is in the area of the Predgorye State Farm of Krinichnoye village. The trucks shuttled forth and back, disgorging more and more bodies into the trench. According to some testimonies, a few of individuals who survived the gassing regained consciousness after being thrown into the trench and tried to get out of it were found and shot to death by German and Romanian murder squads. The remaining belongings of the victims were divided up among the Germans and members of the auxiliary police and their families.

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Yakov Mangupli, the last Krymchak Jew of Belogorsk (Karasubazar), who was born in Belogorsk in 1954, speaks about the murder of the Krymchak Jews: Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2011
- Yakov Abramovich, please tell us what you know about what happened to the Krymchaks from Karasubazar during the war. - They were killed in special cars (gas vans). - How did it work? - First people got in, and then they gave them gas, and people died. The Germans were the first to use it. - When did you learn about that? - My father told me after the war. But we never spoke a lot about that. - Did your father have relatives who died here? - His father, mother, grandparents… - So your own grandparents and… - …My uncle, aunt… - What were their names? - His [my father's] sister’s name was Clara, and his brother’s – Aharon. - Family name? … - Mangupli. - And your grandfather’s first name? - I was named Yakov in his honor, and my sister was named after my grandmother Anna. - And you know that they died in the gas vans. Do you know where and how? - It happened on the outskirts, in the cemetery – we will see it now – there was an anti-tank trench. In this trench, like on the Simferopol – Belogorsk highway. - What else do you know? - Only about the gas vans. Some people made it here alive; they were shot with guns and rifles. - Did anyone survive? - Not here, no.
YVA O.101 / 557
Mariano State Farm (Gas Vans)
farm
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Anti-tank trench where the Krymchaks of Karasubazar were buried. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615590