The road from Bayevo village to the murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615573
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Murder story of Bayevo Jews in the Mereya River in Bayevo
Murder Site
Mereya River in Bayevo
Belorussia (USSR)
Since the Jews of Bayevo lived compactly on one street, there was no need to establish a ghetto. At the end of October - the beginning of November 1941 the village's Jews, numbering 200, were taken 1.5 kilometers north of the village to the Mereya River near the Orthodox cemetery of Pakhomovo village (today the village does not exist). There they were murdered in an anti-tank trench.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Leonid Semyonov, who was born in 1907, testified:
... Before the war the Jewish population of our village was large. As soon as German troops temporally occupied our county, they immediately started the mass shooting of the innocent Jewish population. They also shot all the Jewish population of our village. …
The grave of the Jews who were shot is located near Bayevo village in the Bayevo rural council area of Dubrovno County....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-84-6 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20003
Mereya River in Bayevo
river bank
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
54.484;31.109
Photos
The road from Bayevo village to the murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615573