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Murder Story of Stary Krym Jews in an Anti-Tank Trench near Mt. Bolshoy Agarmash

Murder Site
Anti-Tank Trench near Bolshoy Agarmash Mountain
Russia (USSR)
According to one testimony, apparently in January 1942, a group of Jews from the Pervaya Pyatiletka collective farm and from villages near Staryi Krym were taken to the town, held in prison there for several days, and then shot to death at an anti-tank trench close to Bolshoy Agarmash Mountain. They were buried in a nearby field.
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From the testimony of Maria Litavka, who was born in 1923 and was living near the Pervaya Pyatiletka state farm:
I know a woman who was Jewish but I don't know her family name…, she was about 38-40 years old. She had two children: a boy of about 2 years old and a girl about 5. I don't know where she came from. She had been living on our Pervaya Pyatiletka state farm from the beginning of October 1941 until January 25, 1942. She destroyed her identity card and the children's birth certificates. We assumed that she was Georgian. … She was arrested on January 25, 1942. During the arrest, after locking this woman and her two children in the apartment, the policemen beat her severely. From the apartment one could hear her screaming to save her and her children, but this had no result. They were beaten and [the policemen] shouted at her: "You've remained [alive], so you have been saved, haven’t you? Now we will take you away!' There were 3 policemen. They were Russians, I don't know their family names. All three victims of the beating were put into a cart and, with the others who had been arrested, were taken to Staryi Krym. She was in prison for two days and was then shot to death with her two children at an anti-tank trench at the foot of Agarmych Mountain.
The Holocaust: The Catastrophe in Crimea 1941-1942 (Simferopol, 2004), pp. 39-40 (Russian).
Anti-Tank Trench near Bolshoy Agarmash Mountain
anti-tank trench
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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