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Murder Story of Gomel Jews at the Gomel Farm
Murder Site
Gomel Farmstead
Belorussia (USSR)
In early 1942 (according to another source, in October-November 1941) the Germans started to search for the remaining Jews in and around Gomel. The Germans found 80 (according another source - 67) Jews and took them to the Gomel Farm near a lake. The Jews were held in three houses, which the local mayor ordered to be guarded. After about one month 10 Germans and some Belarusian policemen returned back. They took the Jews to a nearby ditch and immediately shot them all. The Germans left and the bodies were buried by members of a kolkhoz.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Antonina Shpakova, who lived in Gomel village during the war years, testified:
...In 1942 the Germans searched for Jews in the village of Gomel and found 80 Jews; in February 1942 they shot [the Jews] dead in the area of a Gomel farmstead…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-92-210 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20021
The ChGK report from Gomel
... In January 1942 Germans came to Gomel village, rounded up all the Jews, numbering 80, and shot them dead at a Gomel farmstead....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-92-210 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20021
The ChGK report from Gomel village
...Immediately after the occupation of [the area encompassed by the] Vetrino council the German occupiers began mass shootings of the population … In January 1942 a murder squad arrived in Gomel village and shot dead 80 people - women, children, and old people - at a Gomel farmstead ...
NARB, MINSK 861-1-13 copy YVA M.41 / JM/10648
Vera Bobkova, who was born in 1905 and lived in Gomel village during the war years, testified:
...After that shooting [in late autumn 1941], half a month or a month later, a group of Germans, together with policemen, arrived again and all the Jews from the village, approximately 80 people, were taken to three houses. The mayor of the village ordered them to be guarded. After half a month or a month 10 Germans, with some policemen, returned to the village, took them [Jews] to a ditch in Gomel village, and immediately shot them all dead.... After the shooting the Germans left Gomel. The Germans left the bodies behind and they were buried by members of a kolkhoz …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-92-210 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20021
Gomel Farmstead
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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