Contemporary monument at the Glinitsa murder site
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Murder Story of Cherven Jews in Glinitsa
Murder Site
Glinitsa
Belorussia (USSR)
In the autumn of 1941, all the remaining Jews of Cherven were concentrated in a ghetto along a single street in a suburb, along with Jews from the vicinity and refugees from more distant areas. The non-Jewish occupants of the ghetto area were transferred to Jewish-owned homes in the center of town. A few Jews, including patients at the municipal hospital, remained outside the ghetto. The Belarusian police periodically murdered Jewish ghetto inmates near the municipal cemetery.
On February 1, 1942, in the early hours of the morning, the German forces and local policemen surrounded the Cherven Ghetto. The Jews were ordered to stand outside their houses and wait. At the same time, other Jews living outside the ghetto walls (e.g., at the local hospital) were rounded up. At around midday, two pits dug by local non-Jewish residents were completed, and the Jews were taken, in groups of 30-40, to the pits, just 300-400 meters from the ghetto, on the road leading to Zametovka (Zamyatovka), in a former clay pit known as Glinitsa (Glinishche). They were ordered to strip to their underwear and lie on the ground, whereupon they were shot dead. Witnesses put the number of victims at between 1,500-1,750 people. The murder operation was carried out by the Einsatzkommando 8 unit of Einsatzgruppe B, with the help of local policemen.
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Korotky [first name unknown], who was born in 1920 and lived in Cherven during the war years, testifies:
...On February 1, 1942, all the Jews remaining in the ghetto – some 1,500 people – were murdered. The policeman Shikhov ordered, “All Jews must come quickly to the ghetto.” Gitlin, who was sick (in the town hospital), got up and went to the ghetto. In the postnatal ward, there was one woman who had just given birth. The policeman told her to go to the ghetto, but she couldn’t walk. Shikhov commanded her to go immediately. They wrapped her baby in a sheet and threw it into the sled. During the murder of the Jews, I was outside and saw everything. At first, they brought groups of 30-40 people to the pit, ordered them to undress, and shot them. The murder site was on the way to Zametovka, in a place called Glinitsa....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-17 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20010
Glinitsa
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Contemporary monument at the Glinitsa murder site
Center for Jewish Art, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Copy YVA 14616625
Sketch illustrating the murder sites of the Jews of Cherven
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-17 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20010