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Murder Story of Cherny Ostrov Jews at the Cherny Ostrov Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Cherny Ostrov
Ukraine (USSR)
In 1942, twenty-six Jews were shot dead by gendarmes and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, under the command of Anatoliy Gruzitskiy, at the Jewish cemetery on the southern outskirts of the town. The killers shot the victims in the back of the skull, at point-blank range. The victims were buried in six pits.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Cherny Ostrov
There are six pits at the Jewish cemetery of the town of Chernyi Ostrov, 500 meters south of the town. Twenty-six bodies are buried in them. There are sixteen bodies in one pit, while the other five pits contain a total of ten bodies. During the exhumation, it was impossible to determine the age or sex of the victims. It was established that they had been killed with bullets fired in the back of the skull at point-blank range. The shootings were carried out in 1942 by the Chernyi Ostrov regional Gendarmerie, under the supervision of the chief of the Gendarmerie.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-817 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19711
Cherny Ostrov
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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