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Eski-Yurt

According to one testimony, on December 13, 1941 40 Jewish families (90 Krymchaks and Ashkenazi Jews) or, according to a Soviet document, 200 Jews from Bakhchisaray were taken to the town outskirts and held at the former Almaz cement factory. (According to another testimony, they were held at a barn near the train station.) Then they were taken to a ridge near Eski-Yurt village (today part of Bakhchisaray), where a POW camp was located. Today the site is on the territory of the Stroy Industrial combine. They were shot to death at one of the two 12-meter deep ravines that crossed the ridge. Afterwards the Germans blew up the ravine, burying the victims. On April 10, 1944 several children from mixed marriages were shot to death at this site.

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