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Murder Story of Berdichev Jews at the Old Synagogue in Berdichev
Murder Site
Berdichev Old Synagogue
Ukraine (USSR)
According to some accounts, a group of elderly, pious Jews were burned alive by the Germans in Berdichev’s Old Synagogue.
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Written Accounts
From the article of Vasily Grossman “The Murder of the Jews in Berdichev”:
... The same “joking” execution was carried out in the old section of the city – that part of Berdichev which was located between the Zhitomir Highway [Road] and the Gnilopyat River. The Germans ordered the old men to put on their tallis and tefillin and conduct a service in the Old Synagogue: “Pray to God to forgive the sins committed against the Germans!” The doors of the synagogue were locked, and the building was set on fire...
Ehrenburg, Ilya and Grossman, Wassili. The black book : the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1981, p. 17.
Berdichev Old Synagogue
synagogue
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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