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Murder Story of Piryatin Jews in Pirogovskaya Levada/Tarasovka
Murder Site
Pirogovskaya Levada (Tarasovka Area)
Ukraine (USSR)
On April 6, 1942 the Germans took the ghetto inmates to Pirogovskaya Levada or, according to other sources, to a site near Tarasovka village, 3-4 kilometers from Piryatin, where in a single day or over the next four days, 1,600 Jews, including 700 (370) children were murdered by Sonderkommando Platt with the help of local policemen.
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Written Testimonies
Written Accounts
Soviet Reports
Testimony of Iosif Fisher, who was born in 1930 in Piryatin and lived there during the war years
It happened on the second day of the Russian [Orthodox] Easter in 1942…. We were sitting on the porch of the factory’s main office and could hear the shooting. We heard screams, terrible screams. … This continued until about evening. All this went on from about 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. At 6 p.m. everything calmed down and was quiet, very quiet. … After the first group of Jews was shot, approximately 100 people remained alive. They managed to hide either with Russians who sympathized with them or in other places, but the fact is that approximately one hundred people remained alive. These hundred people were taken back to the ghetto and were told that they would not be shot since they had survived. These Jews were left alive until around the Russian Pentecost holiday.
YVA O.3 / 3951
Pirogovskaya Levada (Tarasovka Area)
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Murder Site
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