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Murder story of Smolensk Jews in the Iverskaya Church
Murder Site
Iverskaya Church
Russia (USSR)
Some sources report the mass murder of Jews near a church building in Smolensk. During the period of the occupation the Gestapo headquarters were located there. More than 300 Jewish refugees from Warsaw and about 300 Jews from Kiev, as well as hundreds of Smolensk Jews, were murdered there. The exact date of the murder operation remains unknown.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
A resident of Smolensk, Mariya Mledova [not clear]-Shmeleva, testified:
... The mass murder of the Jews also took place near the Iverskaya Church, where the Gestapo headquarters were located, previously this was building site of a railway school. More than 300 Jews from Warsaw, 300 Jews from Kiev, and hundreds of Jews from Smolensk had worked there. All of them were shot....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-44-14 copy YVA M.33 / JM/21181
Iverskaya Church
Russian Orthodox Church
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
54.783;32.05