Mlynok Ditch (Daraganovo Forest) murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614657
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Murder story of Daraganovo Jews in the Mlynok Ditch
Murder Site
Mlynok Ditch
Belorussia (USSR)
A killing unit of 30 SS men arrived in Daraganovo from Bobruysk in May 1942. More than 100 Jews from Daraganovo were taken by the local police to a forest northwest of the village, not far from the old bakery and the Bobruysk Road, near the Mlynok Ditch (in Doroganovo Forest). There they were forced to take off their clothes and were shot to death.
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Written Accounts
Elena Alexandrova, who was born in 1916 in Daraganovo and lived there during the war years, testified:
I, Elena Makarovna Alexandrova, born in 1916, a resident of the village of Daraganovo, [today in] Osipovichi County, Mogilev District, confirm the fact that during the years of the fascist occupation a ghetto was located on Peschannaya Street. No one was allowed in and no one was allowed out. It was guarded by the police. Later they [the Jews] were all shot in the Daraganovo forest, where their grave is located.
After the war a monument was erected there.
August 26, 1999.
E. M. Aleksandrova
Archive of High School Museum in Daraganovo
Mlynok Ditch
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Murder Site
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Mlynok Ditch (Daraganovo Forest) murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614657