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Murder Story of Maryina Gorka Jews at the Russian Orthodox Church in Maryina Gorka
Murder Site
Maryina Gorka
Belorussia (USSR)
In September 1941, the Germans brought seventy of Maryina Gorka’s Jews to the vicinity of the former Russian Orthodox Church. The Jews were forced to dig a pit on the edge of a hillock, fifty meters east of the Church, known by the locals as “Tseilon.” A number of the Jews were shot on site; others were shot in a cavern near the church.
German Reports from Maryina Gorka
October 25, 1941
Operational Situation Report USSR No. 124
Einsatzgruppe B ... At the request of Gauleiter Kube, the district of Maryina Gorka was raided .... The operation against the Jews in Maryina Gorka was carried out immediately afterwards. This became necessary because the Jews were sabotaging all the instructions issued by the occupying authorities. The work assigned to them was carried out with great reluctance. Altogether 996 Jews and Jewesses were given “special treatment” in order to break this spirit of resistance ....
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, pp. 205-206.
Maryina Gorka
Russian Orthodox Church
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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