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Murder Story of Ponornitsa Jews at the Communications Office in Ponornitsa
Murder Site
Communications Office in Ponornitsa
Ukraine (USSR)
In November 1941 at least 26 Jews were shot on German orders by Ukrainain police from Korop in the basement of the communications office in Ponornitsa.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Matryona Ovsyuk, who was born in 1917 and lived in Ponornitsa during the war years, testified:
… In November 1941 the following civilians were taken to the basement of Ponornitsa's communicatiosn office in November 1941 on orders from the commander, von Levetso, and were brutally murdered with explosives, which were thrown into the basement: 1. Rakhil Lazarovna Bruk, 2. Isak Lvovich Bruk, 3. Haya Lvovna Bruk [the names of 26 Jews are given] …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-25 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19995
Communications Office in Ponornitsa
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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