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Murder Story of Annopol Jews in Ponora
Murder Site
Ponora
Ukraine (USSR)
In July 1941, some twenty-five Jewish men were taken out of the village and shot dead by Ukrainian policemen in a field near the village of Ponora. The bodies of the victims were then brought back to Annopol by cart and buried at the local Jewish cemetery.
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Written Testimonies
Semyon Velinger, who was born in Annopol in 1928 and lived there during the war years, testifies:
…Some two months [sic] after the arrival of the Germans in the village…, a group of [Ukrainian] policemen suddenly showed up, took away twenty-five [Jewish] men, and shot them dead in a field near the village of Ponora.
YVA O.33 / 3279
Ponora
field
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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