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Hospital in Tatarsk

In September 1941 (some sources refer to September 15; others to the end of September) the local Jewish men were shot by Germans. German sources report the murder of about 30 Jewish men and 3 Jewish women who had left the ghetto without permission and then tried to return to their own homes in an attempt to expel the Russians who had occupied them. Soviet sources report 75 Jewish victims shot to death in a pit near the local hospital. Jews from Shamovo, Gorodok, and other nearby villages were also shot in Tatarsk.

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Collective Farm Yard in Tatarsk

According to some sources, in the second murder operation, that took place at the end of September or in October 1941, about 200 inmates of the ghetto were murdered in the collective farm yard. The third mass murder operation, when groups of 10 – 15 people were shot in a pit, probably also took place in that area. The exact date and the number of Jewish victims in the latter massacre remain unknown.

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