Mass graves near the former Pechora camp
YVA, Photo Collection, 503/14322
Pechora Camp Area Related Communities
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Murder story of Bratslav Jews in the Pechora Camp Area
Murder Site
Pechora Camp Area
Ukraine (USSR)
According to testimonies of former inmates of the Pechora camp, on an unknown date in the first half of 1942 (in the summer of 1942, according to a report of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission) a certain SS unit murdered a large number of camp inmates, consisting mostly of children and elderly people. After being separated from the able-bodied prisoners, the victims were told they were going to Tulchin to dig peat but instead were loaded onto trucks and taken to large pits near Pechora and either shot to death or thrown into the pits alive.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGk report from Bratslav
From Materials about Atrocities committed by Romanians in the Occupied Areas:
…In the summer of 1942 some Romanians took all the inmates from the Pichkoara [Pechora] camp on the South Bug River for work, leaving behind only the elderly and children. In the evening, on returning from work, the camp inmates found the barracks empty. They were only shown the site where their relatives were buried….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-148-32 copy YVA M.33 / JM/21890
Pechora Camp Area
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Videos
Photos
Shelia Vaisman, was born in 1936 in Bratslav and lived there during the war years (interview in Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 31618 copy YVA O.93 / 31618
Sofia Volnikova was born in 1933 and lived there during the war years (interview In Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 5928 copy YVA O.93 / 5928