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Murder story of Varvarovka Jews in the Rozvalina Ravine

Murder Site
Rozvalina Ravine
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 30, 1941 eleven members of two Jewish families from Varvarovka who were taken to the Rozvalina farmstead near Varvarovka, together with several Jewish refugee families from Bessarabia, were taken to a pit near the farmstead and, after being brutally treated, were shot to death by Romanian policemen.

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The ChGK report from Varvarovka
חקירת פשעי הנאצים בברית-המועצות:  גורל יהודים ואוכלוסיה אזרחית שסייעה ליהודים אזורי VASELINOVO ו-VARVAROVKA.
…On September 30, 1941, during Romanian rule [occupation] 21 totally innocent people who had been living on the Rozvalina farmstead (and whose bodies were [recently] found in a ravine on the Rozvalina farmstead) … were brutally tortured to death by Romanian gendarmes. The following was discovered by exhuming the bodies: the bodies of the murdered were disfigured, the bones of their limbs were broken; their eventual death was caused by bullet wounds in the head. The list of identified victims is attached below: 1.Yakov Beletskiy and his family, a total of 6 people, resident[s] of Varvarovka village. 2. Lev Beletskiy and his family, a total of 5 people, [residents of Varvarovka village].... Two boys from the family of Yakov Beletskiy escaped the bullets and survived, one of them is [now] in Varvarovka village and the other [fighting] with the Red Army....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-68-178 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19716
Rozvalina Ravine
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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