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Murder Story of Sevastopol Jews at the Bakhchisaray POW Camp

Murder Site
Bakhchisaray POW Camp
Russia (USSR)
Former murder site of Krymchak [Jewish] refugees from Sevastopol at the Bakhchisaray prisoner of war transit camp. Photographer: 	Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011.
Former murder site of Krymchak [Jewish] refugees from Sevastopol at the Bakhchisaray prisoner of war transit camp. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615732
Between July 1 and 15, 1942 an SD unit shot to death 1,029 Jewish prisoners of war and 18 Krymchak [Jewish] refugees from Sevastopol at the Bakhchisaray prisoner of war transit camp (Dulag) and threw their bodies into the nearby Egis-Oba (Bakhchisaray) reservoir. Most of the victims originally came from the Tole POW camp.
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From the records of the Rear Army Area 553
From the activity report of Local Commandants Office II/576 (V) Bakhchisarai, for the period between July 1-15, 1942 ... The SD reports that in the period from July 1-15, 1942 they arrested and drowned 1,029 Jews. Most of the Jews originally came from the Tole POW Camp; some of them [18 Krymchak Jews] were refugees who had been held in the refugee camp. Among the Jews were two politruks (political officers) and one commissar....
BA - MA Freiburg RH 23/101 copy YVA M.29 / 1152
Bakhchisaray POW Camp
War Prisoners' camp
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Contemporary view of the Sevastopol Jews at the Bakchisaray POW transit camp murder site. Video by Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2011 Yad Vashem Visual Center 14653801