Zhestianaya Gorka massacre

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Zhestianaya Gorka massacre
Part of Eastern Front (World War II)
Mass grave of victims near Zhestianaya Gorka
Location	Zhestianaya Gorka, Novgorod Oblast, Soviet Union
Date	1941–1943
Target	Soviet civilians and partisans
Attack type	Mass Murder
Deaths	2600
Perpetrators	Latvian Auxiliary Police, Einsatzgruppen
Motive	Genocide[1]

The Zhestianaya Gorka massacre was a World War II massacre of partisans and civilians, mostly women and children, carried out in the village of Zhestianaya Gorka (now Novgorod oblast, Russia) by Schutzmannschaft and Nazi collaborators.