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Murder story of Nowogrodek Jews in the Market Square in Nowogródek
Murder Site
Nowogrodek
Poland
On July 5, 1941, members of the Einsatzkommando 8b rounded up together 58 Jewish men with assistance of Belarussian auxiliary police, and murdered them in the town square. Later, on July 26, 1941, the same units gathered 100-200 Jewish men, most of them members of the intelligentsia, in the market square. After being publicly tortured, 52 of them were shot dead.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Prepared by the committee head Rabbi M. R. Rogatinskiy of Nowogrodek and three other members of the committee:
... On July 5, 1941, 58 Jewish men were shot in the Novogrudok [Nowogrodek] town square of for being five minutes late for work. The murder was carried out in the following way: the Jews were placed into three rows and then shot by machine-gun row by row, so that those still alive could watch the death of the others and anticipate his own. The murders were perpetrated by the Fascist beasts and the Belarussian (hunting) police ....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-81-102 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19998
Nowogrodek
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Lisa Reibel was born in 1930 in Nowogrodek, and lived there during the war years.
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 38299 copy YVA O.93 / 38299