in the northern part of crimea there's a village called krestianovka, formerly known as larindorf. it was a mostly jewish community established in the 1920's by jews from belarus. the village had a very deep well dug with equipment brought in from the us. it was more than 200 meters deep. when the germans came, they rounded up the jews that didn't flee, shot them and tossed the bodies into the well according to non jewish eye witnesses. among them was the grandmother of my grandfather, his uncle and aunt as well as a cousin. his mother took him and his little brother and fled to kerch. after the war, the kolkhoz continued to dump horse corpses into that well, later bulldozing and sealing it together with the other wells in the area when the north crimean canal was built.
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