The Pripyat River. Photographer: Inna Gerasimova, 2010.
Inna Gerasimova, Copy YVA 14616170
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Murder story of Mozyr Jews in the Pripyat River near Mozyr
Murder Site
Pripyat River near Mozyr
Belorussia (USSR)
At the end of the autumn of 1941- beginning of 1942, Germans rounded up some one hundred Jews from Mozyr, including women and children, and took them to the Pripyat River. There they were forced to make holes in the ice, after which they were pushed into the water under the ice (according to other sources, the Germans shot them with machineguns).
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Mozyr
... On the basis of testimonies revealed during the investigation carried out by the Commission, we know that 700 residents of the town of Mozyr – women, children and the elderly – were drowned by the Germans in the Pripyat River ....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-91-20 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20019
Pripyat River near Mozyr
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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The Pripyat River. Photographer: Inna Gerasimova, 2010.
Inna Gerasimova, Copy YVA 14616170