Tsentralnaya Street murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615479
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Murder story of Naprasnovka Jews in the Shepelevka Forest
Murder Site
Shepelevka Area
Belorussia (USSR)
On March 22, 1942 all the Jews of Naprasnovka were concentrated in two houses until the afternoon and, then, they were taken in a column to a forest one kilometer east of the village, between Shepelevka and Michaylovichi villages, where they were shot to death.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Naprasnovka
...On March 22, 1942 the Germans shot and tortured 250 people. Those shot were Jews. Before shooting these people, the Germans cruelly humiliated them. They forced them to pay fines. They carried out several collections of valuables and gold under the pretext that people who gave up such things would not be shot. On the day of the shooting, March 22, 1942, the Germans threw the children into pits while they were still alive: they buried alive both the children and the wounded.
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GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-88-36 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20012
Shepelevka Area
forest
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
54.316;30.600
Photos
Tsentralnaya Street murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615479