Minsk-Mogilev road murder site
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Murder Story of Berezino Jews on the Minsk-Mogilev Road near Berezino
Murder Site
Minsk-Mogilev Road near Berezino
Belorussia (USSR)
Different sources indicate that between 150 and 230 young Jewish men from Berezino were shot during the murder operation of August - September 1941 (according to other sources, at the beginning of 1942). Fearful of Jewish resistance, the Germans took all the young men some six kilometers out of the town and there, between the villages of Novoselki and Pogost, 50 meters from the Minsk-Mogilev Highway, killed them. They then announced to the local population that they had liquidated a partisan unit.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Berezino
... We members of the Official State Commission ... have discovered a mass grave located between the village of Novoselki and the town of Pogost, 50 meters from the Minsk-Mogilev Road. The local population told us that 200 Jews were shot here at the beginning of 1942 and buried in a single grave measuring 10 x 8 x 2 meters ....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-2 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20009
Minsk-Mogilev Road near Berezino
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Videos
Photos
Part I
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 7691 copy YVA O.93 / 7691
Part II Elizabeth Eizendorf was born in 1929 in Berezino, and lived there during the war years. (Interview in Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 7691 copy YVA O.93 / 7691