Monument located at the site where Kustyukovichi's Jews were murdered. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615492
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Murder Story of Kostyukovichi Jews at the Kommunary Railway Station
Murder Site
Kommunary
Belorussia (USSR)
On September 3 (in October, according to other sources), 1942 the Jews of Kotsyukovich were rounded up by local auxiliary policemen. They were told they were going to be resettled in Palestine, but were taken toward the Kommunary railway station. Near the station they were driven into a swampy area, at a place called Gorelyy Pen. There the Jews were ordered to dig a grave, then to undress to their underwear and lie face down in the grave. After that they were shot. Little children had their spines broken and were thrown into the grave alive. The number of those murdered was 380 (or 451, according to another source).
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From the report of the partisan brigade "For Soviet Belorussia," November 20, 1943:
... In October 1942 in Kostyukovichi, near the railway station of Kommunary, 451 Jewish men, women, and children were shot and thrown into a common grave....
RGASPI, MOSCOW 69-1-159 copy YVA M.40 / 24
From unpublished documents assembled for the "Black Book"
The extermination of the Jews from the town of Kostyukovichi took place under the command of Gestapo chief Weide and commander Seidel. The doomed ones were taken outside the town to a swamp. There 250 people were killed. The Jews had to dig their own graves. Afterwards the Germans forced all the people to undress and, then, they divided the clothes up between themselves. Infants were torn from the arms of their mothers; babies' spines were broken by a blow from a knee or by being smashed against a tree. In the grave 30 bodies of children under five years old were discovered - their backbones were broken. Old people unable to walk were brought by cart and thrown into the grave alive....
GARF, MOSCOW 8114-1-956 copy YVA M.35 / 19
Kommunary
railway station
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Monument located at the site where Kustyukovichi's Jews were murdered. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615492