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Murder Story of Smolevichi Jews at the Kurovshchina Farm
Murder Site
Kurovshchina Farm
Belorussia (USSR)
On August 17, 1941 (according to other sources on July 28, or in September), 80-150 able-bodied Jewish men from Smolevichi were selected by the Germans on the pretext that they were needed to do some kind of work. The men were brought in convoy to the Kurovshchina Farm, two kilometers east of Smolevichi, where they were shot and buried. This murder operation was carried out by Teilkommando [sub-unit] No. 2 of the Einsatzkommando 8b, under the command of Werner Schoenemann.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Ivan Scharomet, born 1899, witnesses:
... On July 28, 1941, the Germans chose 150 able-bodied men from the Jewish population [of Smolevichi]. They were told they were needed for some kind of work, lined up and brought towards the town of Ryabyi Slup ... All the men took shovels with them and, hoping they would find employment, walked surrounded by accompanying German guards to their expected place of work ... At 5 pm on July 28, 1941, they were taken to the Kurovshche [Kurovshchina] Farm ... where an enormous pit had been dug. All these 150 innocent Jews ... were shot dead ... After they were shot, they were buried in the ground ... At the time of the shooting no local resident was allowed to approach the murder site, which was surrounded by the German convoy ....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-14 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20010
Kurovshchina Farm
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Sketch of the Kurovshchina Farm murder site
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20009