Rukrenitse murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2008.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615453
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Murder Story of Chernevka Jews in Rukrenitse
Murder Site
Rukrenitse
Belorussia (USSR)
On October 25, 1941 a German unit from Dribin arrived in Chernevka. An order was given to dig a large ditch next to the Russian Orthodox cemetery, about 100 meters from the road, at a place called in Yiddish Rukrenitse. A day later all the Jewish women and children were taken to the ditch, where they were shot. Soviet sources estimated the number of victims at 600.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Mariya Svitkova (née Krasnova), who was born in 1934 and lived in Chernevka during the war years, testified:
… Some time in early fall the Germans came to kill the Jews of Chernevka. Almost the whole adult population looked on. Momma did not allow us young children to look but our older brothers told us that they chased all the Jews to the outskirts of town and forced them to dig a pit. Then they made them stand on the edge and shot them. The Germans included a young non-Jewish girl with curly dark hair in the column of people taken to be shot but local residents spoke up for her and she was let go to join her parents….
Ida Shenderovich and Alexander Litin, Forgotten towns of the Mogilev area, Mogilev, 2009, p. 82 (Russian).
Rukrenitse
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Rukrenitse murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2008.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615453