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Murder Story of Velizh Jews at the Velizh Gestapo Headquarters
Murder Site
Gestapo headquarters in Velizh
Russia (USSR)
In December 1941 or, according to other sources, on January 5 and/or 21, 1942, 25 Jewish girls were taken from the ghetto on the pretext of being sent to work at the commandant's office and then shot in the Gestapo building.
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Written Testimonies
Anna Zhukova, who was born in 1914 in Velizh and was an inmate of the ghetto there, testified:
In December 1941 … other policemen came to the ghetto. They selected 25 young women, supposedly to work at the commandant's office. Among those taken were: Riva Berson, Ester Kasavina, Ester Kurshina, Eugeniya Novikova, Olga Teveleva, and others. From the words of … I learned that the girls were taken under guard by policemen to the Gestapo [headquarters] that was located in the former forestry office building.
From the book Shevel Goland, ed., The Velizh Ghetto, Smolensk Province, November 1941 – January 1942 (Moscow, 2012), p. 32 (Russian).
Gestapo headquarters in Velizh
Gestapo Office
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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Boris Nikhamovskii born in 1931 in Velizh and lived there during the war years
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