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Murder Story of Lvovo Jews at the Animal Burial Ground in the Lvovo Area
Murder Site
Lvovo Area
Ukraine (USSR)
On November 2, 1941 about 90 Jews of Lvovo were taken 3 kilometers northeast of the village to the animal burial ground and shot dead. The perpetrators of the massacre were members of Einsatzgruppe D.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the ChGK Report about German atrocities in the village of Lvovo:
…On November 2, 1941 87 people were murdered at the animal burial ground of the village of Lvovo.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
From the Testimony of Raisa Kovalenko, Lvovo village:
… In November 1941, on a Sunday, we were working harvesting sunflowers and saw a whole transport being driven along, they were heding toward the animal burial ground, nothing could be seen from afar, only shots could be heard. Upon our return home from work we learned of the brutal massacre….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-77-413 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19992
Lvovo Area
animal burial ground
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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