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Murder story of Smotrich Jews in the Smotrich River

Murder Site
Smotrich River In Smotrich
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one testimony at the end of July or beginning of August 1941 a group of Jews who had been working at the printing house was ... taken in two columns (women and men separately), under guard, to the bank of the Smotrich River. A German murder squad standing on the bridge over the river shot them to death. About 20 of the Jews were shot dead; the others drowned.
Smotrich River In Smotrich
river bank
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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