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Murder story of Zhornishche Jews in the Zhornishche Ravine
Murder Site
Zhornishche Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In August 1941 13 Jewish men and boys were forced into the local club building and abused. Then they were taken from Zhornishche to a ravine close to town and shot there. The exact date of the murder is not known. According to various testimonies the perpetrators were members of an ethnic German militia, some Polish gang or, most likely, members of Einsatzgruppe C.
Zhornishche Area
ravine
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Vladimir Sapozhnikov was born in 1932 in Zhornishche and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 21098 copy YVA O.93 / 21098