The Shoah (1939–1945)
Deportation of the Jews of the mineral waters
Sept. 1942·Kislovodsk
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Summoned for an alleged resettlement, the Jews of Kislovodsk and neighboring spa towns are taken by train to an anti-tank ditch near Mineralnye Vody and murdered.
Kislovodsk is one of the spa towns of the North Caucasus, where numerous patients taking the waters and refugees from Ukraine were staying. Following the occupation, a notice summoned the Jewish population for an alleged resettlement in Ukraine, inviting them to bring their luggage.
Those summoned were loaded onto a train at the city's railway station, together with those from neighboring stations, and taken to an anti-tank ditch dug near Mineralnye Vody, where they were murdered. Among them was the daughter-in-law of the painter Ilya Répine.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Russie
Commission d'enquête soviétique ; *Le Livre noir* ; Yad Vashem.