The Bobry murder site
Leonid Smilovitsky, Copy YVA 14616232
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Murder Story of Mozyr Jews in Bobry
Murder Site
Bobry
Belorussia (USSR)
On January 6-7, 1942, the Nazis liquidated the Mozyr ghetto. They transferred the Jews first to the town prison, where they were ordered to undress, and then in groups of 100-200 toward the neighboring village of Bobry, where large pits had already been prepared. The men were murdered immediately; the women and children were thrown alive into the pits and then covered with the bodies of the dead men. The operation, perpetrated by SS and SD soldiers together with local policemen, claimed the lives of all 1,500 inhabitants of the Mozyr ghetto.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Mozyr
... At the beginning of January 1942, the camp’s entire Jewish population, some 1,500 people, was taken in groups of 100-200 outside the town, near the village of Bobry. There the men were shot to death; the women and children were pushed alive into the pits and then covered with the corpses of the victims ....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-91-20 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20019
Bobry
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
52.049;29.266
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The Bobry murder site
Leonid Smilovitsky, Copy YVA 14616232