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Murder story of Pyatigorsk Jews in the Pyatigorsk Area ( Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Pyatigorsk Area
Russia (USSR)
In October 1942 a group of 20 Jews from various places in the Pyatogorsk area were brought to the [local] Gestapo office. The group included young children and old people. The Jewish victims were gassed in a vehicle that the locals referred to "the bakery." In November 1942 another group of Jews was brought to the Gestapo office. They were gassed the following day. The exact number of victims is unknown. Some sources say the victims' bodies were taken outside the city and either buried or just discarded there, but there is no precise information about the site.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the family history of Luba Gusman, whose family members lived in Pyatigorsk and were gassed there, apparently in November 1942
…this way about three months passed. [after the beginning of the occupation]. …When the gas van (this is how a vehicle constructed for the asphyxiation of people by gas was called) arrived for the Frank family, the Germans were unable to enter the apartment for a long time. … All the family members, Dr Frank, his wife, Ellochka [his daughter], and my grandmother had cut their veins. Their bloodstained half-dead bodies were dragged through the yard towards the gas van. …
..Later my Dad said that he did not succeed in finding out from the local authorities in what ditch our family members had been buried.
YVA O.33 / 5089
Pyatigorsk Area
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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