New data on the genocide in Dubossary have been published

Residents of the city of Dubossary laid flowers at the memorial to the victims of fascism. The monument built on the site where in September 1941 the Nazis carried out mass executions of civilians, mainly Jews. The ceremony was dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The leaders of the city and the district, deputy of the Supreme Council Boris German, representatives of the city's public, including the Jewish community, members of the Renewal Republican Party came to honor the memory of the victims of the Nazi terror, the website of the Republican Party reports.

The place of mass execution of people is called the Babi Yar of Dubossary. According to historians, up to 18 thousand people died here. The day before, as part of a memorable day and to preserve the historical memory of the tragedy of the civilian population of the Soviet Union, the Federal Security Service of Russia published declassified digital copies of archival documents of the Federal Security Service in the Arkhangelsk region on the investigation of the atrocities of the invaders in Dubossary. From 6000 to 8000 peaceful Soviet citizens, including women and children, were shot here from September 12 to September 28, 1941.

As a result of operational-search activities in 1953, the Department of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Arkhangelsk region arrested participants in the massacre of the civilian population of the city of Dubossary, Moldavian SSR, occupied by German-Romanian troops on July 27, 1941: Christian Schneidt, Wilhelm Shtots, Naimiller Rudolf and Rudolf Schneider.

As follows from the published data, after the capture of the city by the invaders, a special Einsatzkommando was organized to exterminate Jews, Gypsies, communists and Soviet prisoners of war, and a Jewish ghetto was created on the territory of the tobacco factory in the city of Dubossary, the destruction of the prisoners of which became the most massive act of genocide on the territory of the Moldavian SSR.

On the 24th of February, 1954, the Military Tribunal of the White Sea Military District found Christian Schneidt, Wilhelm Stotz, Rudolf Naimiller and Rudolf Schneider guilty of crimes under Art. 54-1a of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, and sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-five years each, followed by loss of rights for five years, with confiscation of all property.