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Murder Story of Borisov Jews at the Borisov Jewish Cemetery

Murder Site
Borisov
Belorussia (USSR)
In August 1941, fifty Jews were shot at the local Jewish cemetery, which lay at the intersection of Svetlov Street and Akronomichesky Lane.
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Petr Kovalenko, who was born in Borisov in 1878 and took part in the shooting of Jews in Borisov, testifies:
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943-1945, regarding crimes committed in the cities of Borisov and Novo Borisov and the vicinity of Borisov in the Minsk Region, Belorussia
In the month of August 1941, the Germans arrested a group of fifty Jews and shot them for some reason.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-3 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20009
Borisov
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
54.223;28.502