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Murder Story of Khislavichi Jews at the Machine Tractor Station in Khislavichi
Murder Site
Machine and Tractor Station in Khislavichi
Russia (USSR)
In October 1941, the "Moscow Advance Commando" (Vorkommando Moskau) of Einsatzgruppe B rounded up 150 (according another sources 114) Jewish men, and shot them in a ditch near the Machine and Tractor Station. Their bodies remained unburied for a long time.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
German Reports from Khislavichi
October 9, 1941
Operational Situated Report USSR No. 108
Einsatzgruppe B ... In Khoslavichi [Khislavichi], the Jews living in the ghetto, according to reports of the Russian population, tried to create panic by spreading false rumors to the effect that the Bolsheviks were supposed to be advancing. Furthermore, they threatened to take revenge after the return of the Bolsheviks. Thereupon, the Vorkommando sent a Kommando and liquidated 114 Jews ....
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. 179.
Machine and Tractor Station in Khislavichi
agricultural machinery and tractor station
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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