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Murder Story of Lavy Jews in Sosnitsa

Murder Site
Sosnitsa
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 12, 1941 2-4 Jews from Lavy were arrested in the village and taken to Sosnitsa, where they were shot by a murder squad.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports from Lavy
Documentation of the State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Nazi War Crimes Committed in the Soviet Union regarding the murder and persecution of residents of the Sosnitsa District, 1944
... 14. Mendel Girshovich Rakhlin, age 59, Jewish, a salesman for the kolkhoz Chervoniye Lavy 15. Lusya Mendeleevna Rakhlin, age 39, Jewish, a secretary of the rural council … were shot by an SS murder squad in Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa County, on September 12, 1941 on orders from the German commander – the head of the County gendarmerie Kelbert …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-27 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19995
Sosnitsa
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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