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Murder Story of Gorki Jews in Bystroye
Murder Site
Bystroye
Belorussia (USSR)
In Gorki in September 1941 the Germans rounded up a dozen Jewish men, whom they accused of sabotage. The Jews were taken by truck to the village of Bystroye near Gory and were shot to death there.
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Written Testimonies
Lev Bryn, who was born in 1921 in Gorki, related:
... In September [1941]... 12 or 13 men who were prominent Jews in the town were rounded up and, after being falsely charged with burning down a haystack belonging to the kolkhoz, they were loaded onto trucks and taken to Bystroye village near Gory, where they were shot....
YVA O.3 / 4661
Bystroye
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
54.286;30.986