Popova Gorka murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615565
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Murder Story of Maryina Gorka Jews in Popova Gorka
Murder Site
Popova Gorka
Belorussia (USSR)
On September 22, 1941 (according to another source, September 28), the Jews from Maryina Gorka were sent from the town’s ghetto to Lenin Square. They were then brought by truck three kilometers from the town to Popova Gorka. The Jews of Pukhovichi were also brought to Popova Gorka, but on foot. Twenty members of the Gendarmerie Kommando and twenty members of the SiPO, all of them from Minsk and directed by SS-Brigadefuehrer Zenner, carried out the murder operation. The Germans shot more than 1,000 Jews in two pits.
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.
Popova Gorka
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Popova Gorka murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615565
Sketch of the Popova Gorka murder site
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-12 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20009