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Murder Story of Kakhovka Jews at the Power Station in Kakhovka
Murder Site
Kakhovka
Ukraine (USSR)
According to some witnesses, about 100 Jews were murdered in trenches in the courtyard of the Kakhovka power plant during the large-scale massacre of September or October 1941. The murderers were members of Sonderkommando 10a of Einsatzgruppe D and German and local auxiliary policemen.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Isidor Podvoiskii, who was born in 1887 and lived in Kakhovka during the war years, testified:
… On September 16 [1941] the entire Jewish population was ordered to assemble at the commandant's office. All those assembled were taken in groups outside the town to a field of the Chervonaya Kultura kolkhoz…. Some of the Jews were shot … in the courtyard of the power plant, in a trench….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-414 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Kakhovka
powerstation
Murder Site
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