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Murder story of Bragin Jews in the Bragin Police Station Courtyard
Murder Site
Police Station Yard in Bragin
Belorussia (USSR)
The Jews of Bragin who managed to escape the massacre of the town's Jews on September 13, 1941 but were subsequently caught by the Germans or local auxiliary police were shot in a pit in the yard of the police station in Bragin, mostly in the late fall of 1941. The exact number of victims is not known.
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The ChGK report from Bragin
... Some of the Jews [of Bragin] (who were not present for the election) survived [temporarily] but were caught and shot in the yard of the police station, where there was a special pit that was filled up with bodies every day and, eventually, covered with earth. From there one heard moaning, crying, screams, and cries, then shots were heard....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-91-10 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20018
Police Station Yard in Bragin
Police Detention Camp
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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