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Murder story of Novo Moskovsk Jews in the Garden of the Pedagogical Institute Novo Moskovsk

Murder Site
Garden of the Pedagogical Institute Novo Moskovsk
Ukraine (USSR)
According to Soviet reports, in September-December 1941 about 1,000 civilians were murdered in the garden of the local pedagogical institute. It is unknown how many of the victims were Jews. The perpetrators were apparently members of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C.
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From the Einsatzgruppen Reports:
November 19, 1941 Operational Situation Report USSR No. 135 Einsatzgruppe C: ... Since October 5, 1941, Einsatzkommando 6 has been busy in the district of the Dnieper Bend. Apart from [covering] extensive rural districts, the following towns, all of a defintely industrial character and densely populated, were dealt with... Novo-Moskovsk (30,000 [total] inhabitants)....
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 241.
Garden of the Pedagogical Institute Novo Moskovsk
garden
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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