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Murder Story of Klimovichi Jews at Melovaya Gora

Murder Site
Melovaya Gora
Belorussia (USSR)
Melovaya Gora murder site
Melovaya Gora murder site
Mikhail (Shmuel) Ryvkin, Copy YVA 14616372
The eighty Jews who remained alive after the mass murder operation of November 6 (apart from some specialists, who lived with their families in the small house near the prison) were concentrated in one house. Jews from the villages around Klimovichi were also placed in the house. At the end of November 1941, all these Jews were marched to Melovaya Gora, in the area of the town near the Lazhbanka River, and shot. Some Jews managed to run away, and survived. The place where the specialists were murdered remains unknown.
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Testimony of Nina Polyakova, born 1914, Belarussian:
To be translated
... In November 1941, up to 200 people from the town and its vicinity were gathered in a building in Pushkin Street, where they were kept for two weeks. They were then escorted by German soldiers to Melovaya Gora on the outskirts of Klimovichi, and shot ....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-88-38 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20012
Melovaya Gora
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
53.609;31.957
Melovaya Gora murder site
Melovaya Gora murder site
Mikhail (Shmuel) Ryvkin, Copy YVA 14616372