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Murder Story of Pliski Jews at the Lenin Collective Farm near Pilski
Murder Site
Lenin Collective Farm near Pilski
Ukraine (USSR)
On December 9, 1941 at least 10 Jews were shot by the Hungarian 105th Infantry Brigade, with the assistance of Ukrainian policemen, near Pliski, on the territory of the Lenin Collective Farm. They had been ordered by the German authorities to gather in the central square of the village and were then taken to the murder site. The Jews were shot together with prisoners of war and Communist activists.
One Jew from Pliski was shot later at the same murder site in March 1942.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Pliski
… In the course of the occupation 518 people whose names are unknown, were shot by a Hungarian unit commanded by the "Brave Nikolay" [in Russian: "Udaliy Nikolay", a nickname]. The shooting mostly took place during the day, but sometimes at night. The Hungarians and [Ukrainian] policemen often traveled to other towns, taking with them entire families and groups of people, and shot them immediately [upon arriving there]. The shooting place was on the territory of the Lenin kolkhoz, [but] often also in other locations …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-2 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19994
ChGK Soviet Reports from Pliski
…
8. Pinkhus Zusevich Kerber, male, born in 1876, Jewish, a member of a kolkhoz
9. Erikh Finkinshtain, male, born in 1910, Jewish, a member of a kolkhoz [the names of 10 Jews are given]…
were shot by a Hungarian unit on the territory of the Lenin kolkhoz …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-2 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19994
Lenin Collective Farm near Pilski
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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