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'Sleep, Dear Mommy': Searchers Look for Relatives of Woman Tortured to Death by Gestapo Near Rostov
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Rostov] Rostov searchers have begun work at the site of the Nazis' mass murder of children and disabled people by Dmitry Kutepov Searchers are conducting reconnaissance at the site of the mass execution of people using special equipment. In the Aksaysky district of the Rostov region, searchers have begun work in the so-called “execution field,” where the fascists set up a place of genocide against the Donetsk people.  The head of the search group Mius-Front, Andrei Kudryakov, told KP Rostov-on-Don about who might be buried there. The "Execution Field" is located between Rostov and Novocherkassk, if you drive along the old Rostov road. Now it is the territory of the Aksaysky district. — It is a terrible place because during the war, many residents of Cossack farmsteads and villages, as well as Novocherkassk, were killed there by the Nazis. It is believed that many of them are buried on this “execution field.” At that time, there was a deep anti-tank ditch there — one of Rostov's defense lines. Local residents were killed either because of disloyalty or because of violating the Nazi regime. For example, a person could die for appearing on the street during curfew or for not following some order. EXTRA PEOPLE — But the most terrible thing was that, according to our assumptions, disabled children from the Novocherkassk boarding school and 95 patients of the Novocherkassk psychiatric hospital are buried there. It is possible that some employees were also killed there. These murdered children from Novocherkassk became proof of how the Nazi party program of exterminating people with psychological or physical disabilities was implemented. In their view, they were all superfluous people who did not need to be fed, treated, but simply liquidated. And this fact cannot be forgotten, because completely helpless people were exterminated here. All this speaks of two worldviews. If in Russia special attention was always paid to the mentally ill and children with disabilities, houses were built, they were sent to sanatoriums, they tried to treat them, then in Nazi Germany they were simply exterminated. But perhaps the most terrible thing, added Andrei Kudryakov, is that this place, comparable in its emotional content to Zmievskaya Balka, has been forgotten by almost everyone in our time. SCALE UNKNOWN So, how many people are buried there is still not even approximately known. — During the occupation of Novocherkassk, 1,070 people were killed. But in the city, burial and execution sites of slightly less than 200 people were found. And how many were killed in the Aksaysky district, in the farmsteads and villages, we still do not know. In addition, the Germans often intercepted columns of refugees who were trying to escape the occupation and were leaving the territory of Ukraine for Stalingrad. — That’s why we want to conduct an expedition there to understand at least approximately how many people were killed there. And, of course, to draw attention to this absolutely terrible place. People's Monument at the Site of the Mass Execution Now, the only reminder that the field was a place of mass execution of people is a public monument. — There is a plaque on it: “Galushkina E.F., brutally tortured by the Gestapo on January 9, 1943. Sleep, dear mother. From her husband and daughter.” We don’t know who this woman is yet, but we are trying to find her relatives and friends to find out her fate and why she ended up in the Gestapo. So far we know that the Novocherkassk Gestapo was exterminating members of the anti-fascist movement. Perhaps she belonged to one of the underground cells. In the meantime, searchers are conducting reconnaissance at the site of the shootings, using geomagnetic devices for this purpose. In this way, they plan to establish the approximate location where human remains are located in the ground. — Then we will resolve the issue with the owner of the land, a local farmer, about the time when we can begin excavations at this site. There are currently arable fields there. But what exactly will happen in place of the "execution field" is still unknown. - It depends on the consciousness of our society. For now, this national monument is maintained only at the expense of local residents, the same farmer, residents of the Aksaysky district and Novocherkassk. At the same time, Andrei Kudryakov assured that this place will definitely be included in the excursion route to the sites of the genocide of the civilian population of the Rostov region, which is being conducted by the search teams of the Mius-Front. Posted by: badanov 2024-09-21 |
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