Cemetery area murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615596
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Murder Story of Pechishche Jews at the Pechishche Cemetery
Murder Site
Pechishchi
Belorussia (USSR)
In February or March, 1942 (according to some sources, February 10), a German murder squad took between 82 and 129 Jews of Pechishchi out of their homes and shot them near the cemetery, within a kilometer from the village, at the edge of the forest.
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Written Testimonies
Written Accounts
ChGK Soviet Reports
Olga Romanova, who was born in 1952 in Davidovka village and worked there as school teacher, related:
Interview by Alexander Litin in 2011
The police went to Pechishche to the head of the local authority so that he could point out to them the houses of the Jews. The head of the local authority refused to do so because the police unit had come from another county. Then the police unit went to Svetlogorsk [then Shatilki], where they obtained authorization for the operation. Then they returned to Pechishche and murdered the Jews.
The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
Pechishchi
cemetery
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Cemetery area murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2011.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615596