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Murder story of Vishenki Jews in the Zhernovskiy Forest in the Rybotin Area

Murder Site
Zhernovskiy Forest near the Rybotin Village
Ukraine (USSR)
Zhernovskiy Forest near the Rybotin Village Related Communities
Vishenki
At least 3 Jews were shot by Ukrainian policemen on German orders near the village of Rybotin on September 5, 1942.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports from Vishenki
Documentation of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union from 1944 regarding the murder and persecution of residents of the Korop district
… 16. Mikhail Cherkavskiy, age 73, Jewish, a tailor in Vishenki 17. Naum Bushinskiy, age 22, Jewish, a student at the Nezhin pedagogical college [the names of 3 Jews are given] … were taken by the German commander's office and shot near the village of Rybotkin …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19994
Mariya Krishin, who was born in 1917, testified:
Documentation of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union from 1944 regarding the murder and persecution of residents of the Korop district
… In September 1942 Semen Grigoryevich Kravchenko – a Communist, Vera Mikhailovna Cherkavska – a Jew, Mikhail Cherkavskiy and Naum Bushinskiy –[both] Jews - were arrested and shot in the Zhernovskiy Forest near the village of Vishenki …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19994
Zhernovskiy Forest near the Rybotin Village
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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