Monument to the murdered Jews of Krucha. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2008.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615484
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Murder Story of Krucha Jews at the Krucha Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Krucha
Belorussia (USSR)
On October 10, 1941 local policemen and German soldiers took the Jews by family groups to the forest in the vicinity of the Jewish cemetery several hundred meters from the town. There all the Jews were shot by members of the third company of the second battalion of the 691st Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht. Children were thrown into the grave alive. Several Jews succeeded in escaping on the way to the execution site. A total of 156 Jews were killed.
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Written Testimonies
Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Nikolay Demyanovich, who was born in 1930:
... Sometime in October or November 1941 all the Jews were forced to live in a few houses set aside for them in the street called Kozlinaya ("Goat Street" since people there used to raise goats). They did not live there for long - a week or two at most. They were then taken to the forest near the Jewish cemetery and shot. About 150 people were killed....
Archive of the "Lessons of the Holocaust" Initiative, Mogilev.
From the testimony of Olga Lukina (née Sidorkovich), who was born in 1910:
... When the fascists killed the Jews, [they] threw them into the grave any which way; some of the villagers were then ordered to arrange them in an orderly manner. One of them remembered later that when he took Genka Drutskina by the leg she moved. She was alive!
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Krucha
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Monument to the murdered Jews of Krucha. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2008.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615484