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Murder Story of Usvyaty Jews at Lake Usvyaty
Murder Site
Usvyatskoye Lake
Russia (USSR)
On November 8, 1941, five Jewish men were shot in the evening after forced labor for the Germans at the police station. The shooting was carried out at Usvyaty Lake. According to some sources the bodies were left on the ice and buried only some days afterwards.
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Elizaveta Voynovskaya, who was born in Usvyaty in 1901 and was an inmate of the ghetto, testified:
In the month of November 1941 the German Feldgendarmerie, who later carried out the mass shooting of Jews held in the ghetto camp, arrived at Usvyaty village.
On November 9, 1941 the Jew Mikhail Baskin, who was born in 1911, was hanged at the square of Usvyaty village by Feldgendarmerie members. His body remained hanging for three days. …On November 8, 1941 five more Jews were killed: Isaak Khrapkov, Kopyl Khorosh, Simon Kats, Chaim Zabezhinskiy, and Sholom Golomshtok. Those victims were shot at the edge of Usvyaty Lake outside Usvyaty village.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-20-25 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19924
Usvyatskoye Lake
lakeshore
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Mark Khrapkov was born in 1937 in Usvyaty and lived there during the war years
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