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Murder Story of Mena Jews at the Mena Police Station

Murder Site
Mena Police Station
Ukraine (USSR)
In January 1942 several Jews were shot by local Ukrainian policemen in the courtyard of the Mena police station.
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Investigation by the “Smersh” (counter-intelligence) department of the NKO, the Committee of National Defence of the USSR, of crimes committed by Dmitriy Lantukh, Nikolay Yushchenko, and Vitaliy Gorovoy, residents of Mena County, Chernigov District, who served in the Ukrainian police during the German occupation
To be translated
Protocol of the testimony of the witness Ivan Moskalets, who was born in 1904 in the town of Mena, dated October 4, 1943: … When I was walking by the police station I saw Gorovoy, together with other policemen, taking a group of about 6-7 Jews into the yard of the police station to shoot them. The Jews did not return.…
APSBU, CHERNIHIV 10814 copy YVA TR.18 / 39
Mena Police Station
Police station
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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