Sakhnovshchina Airfield
According to testimonies gathered by the Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, several hundred “Soviet citizens”, probably including Jews, were shot, mainly by local auxiliary policemen, at bomb or fuel storage trenches at the airfield on the outskirts of Sakhnovshchina in 1942-1943.
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Sakhnovshchina Forest Plantation
According to the report of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes, about 20 “Soviet citizens” (including probably both Jews and non-Jews), who were suspected of partisan activities, were shot on November 16, 1941, in a forest plantation near the town of Sakhnovshchina. This massacre seems to have been perpetrated by members of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C.
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Mill in Sakhnovshchina
Testimonies submitted to the Soviet Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes indicate that, beginning in early 1942, several hundred “Soviet citizens” (probably including Jews) were shot, primarily by local auxiliary policemen, near a mill on the outskirts of Sakhnovshchina.
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Synagogue Courtyard in Sakhnovshchina
According to the report of the ChGK, a number of “Soviet citizens”, both Jews and non-Jews, were shot on an unknown date by unknown perpetrators in the courtyard of the Sakhnovshchina synagogue, which had been closed down by the Soviet authorities back in the 1930s.
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