Murder site in Shatilki, now the center of Svetlogorsk
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615597
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Murder Story of Shatilki Jews at the Shatilki Collective Farm
Murder Site
Shatilki
Belorussia (USSR)
In February or March 1942 351 Jews of Shatilki, mostly old people, but young people as well were shot in the former potato pits of the local collective farm
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Related Resources
Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Gennady Valuyev, who was born in 1927, testidied:
Interview by Alexander Litin in 2011
After that [during the winter] the Jews were shot in Shatilki. It was mostly old people who were shot, but young girls were also shot. Before the war the murder site had been the location of kolkhoz potato pits.
The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad vashem
Shatilki
collective farm
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Murder site in Shatilki, now the center of Svetlogorsk
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615597