On September 18, 1941 Jews of Chkalovo (Yudendorf) were among about 400 Jews of Frayleben rural council who were assembled at Frayleben and then taken to a well 6 kilometers from Ydendorf (Chkalovo) where they were shot dead, their bodies thrown into the well.

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On September 18, 1941, some 416 Jews from Frayleben and the surrounding villages were rounded up at a school building in Frayleben, and then taken toward the village of Chkalovo (Yudendorf), a short distance east of Frayleben. The victims were led to a well six kilometers from Yudendorf and shot dead. Their bodies were thrown down the well. That same month, some seventy (most likely Jewish) refugees from Bessarabia, of all ages and both sexes, who had fled to the Frayleben area after the German invasion of the USSR, were murdered at the same location.

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