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Potato Storage Pit in Lenin Collective Farm

According to Soviet sources, eighteen Jewish victims murdered in the vicinity of the collective farm were evacuees from the Nadezhnaya colony in the Novozlatopol County, Zaporozhye District. The shooting took place on March 4, 1942. Prior to it, the Germans had raided the barracks where the Jews lived. First, the Jews were taken to some basement, and they were then marched toward the kolkhoz barns, where they were shot with pistols and submachine guns. The victims' bodies were thrown into a potato storage pit. According to Soviet documents, the group consisted of three Jewish families, including women, elderly people, and children.

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