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Spitsevka Area (Gas Vans)

On December 18, 1942, local police officers and German military personnel locked all the Jewish evacuees from the Spitsevsky County in the County School building near Krasnaya Street. At four AM on December 19, German soldiers and local policemen forced the 174 Jews into a gas van. The people were gassed to death and buried outside the village.

More information: Yad Vashem