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Murder story of Dzyunkov Jews in the Rzhevusskaya Forest
Murder Site
Rzhevusskaya Area
Ukraine (USSR)
According to the testimony of witnesses, some of the Jews of Dzyunkov were murdered in 1942 in a pine forest near Rzhevusskaja rail station in the vicinity of the town of Pogrebishche, center of the county adjoining Pliskov's, northwest of Dzyunkov. It is unknown how many of the total of approximately 90 Dzyunkov Jews were murdered there. The perpetrators were apparently members of the German rural police and local auxiliaries.
Fedot Pereyma, who was born in 1891 and lived in Dzyunkov during the war years, testified:
I know that, during the German occupation, Pliskov County police headed by Kinkel and gendarmerie members headed by Schuster carried out the shooting of the innocent population of the village of Dzyunkov, in 1942, of 94 Jews...The…shooting was partly carried out… in a pine forest near Pogrebishche town.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1269 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19690
Mariya Mazur, who was born in 1917 and lived in Dzyunkov during the war years, testified:
…I know that in 1942 Pliskov County police headed by Kinkel and members of the gendarmerie headed by Schuster carried out the total annihilation of the innocent Jewish civilian population of the village of Dzyunkov. Some of them were shot… in a pine forest near Pogrebishche town.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-54-1269 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19690
Rzhevusskaya Area
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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