In 1942 about 500 people, both Jews and non-Jews, were murdered at the Yanovskiy Ravine located between the villages of Pechkovka and Yanovka.
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Written Accounts
From the recollections of Olga Martinovskaya:
... We lived not far from the ravine. I remember how in 1942 people were taken from the village. The trucks returned empty. After the first time, when all had become silent, my daughter and her friend went to see what had been happening on the outskirts of the village. They came back terrified: the sides of a pit were covered with blood and murdered people were lying at the bottom. They did not go there anymore. But [after that] we often heard shooting and the cries of the victims. We knew from rumors about those who were shot there. I once saw one of accomplices of the Germans transporting in his cart the dead body of Dr. Filian....
Memory: Mstislavl County, Minsk 1999, pp. 200-202 (Belarusian).
Yanovskiy Ravine
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
54.017;31.464
Photos
Yanovskiy Ravine murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2009.