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Murder Story of Kupel Jews at the Kupel Jewish Cemetery

Murder Site
Kupel
Ukraine (USSR)
Those Jews who were caught in hiding after the big murder operation of September 21, 1942 were taken to the Jewish cemetery, stripped naked, and shot to death in large and small graves there. Their homes and property were looted by the Germans.
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From the testimony of Ivan Yakubovsky:
Documentation of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union from 1944 regarding the murder  and persecution of Jews in the Volochisk and Vinkovtsy districts in 1941-1942
… some [Jews] who had managed to hide during the round up and who were later found as well were taken to the [Jewish] cemetery of Kupel, forced to strip naked, and shot to death....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-795 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19710
Kupel
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
49.613;26.522