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Murder story of Antoniny Jews in the Manevtsy Forest
Murder Site
Manevtsy Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In July 1942 the inmates of the ghetto, including people capable of work, as well as elderly people, women, and little children, were taken by Ukrainian auxiliary police to the forest near Manevtsy village, located southeast of Antoniny, and shot to death. Afterwards the graves were covered with earth. Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) Gerald Shefer was in charge of this murder operation.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Vasiliy Prokhorchuk, who was born in 1911 in Antoniny and lived there during the war years, testified:
… In July 1942 all the Jews on the territory of the Antoniny District [Gebiet], those capable of work, as well as the old people and children, were taken to a place near the [village] of Manyevtsy, Krasilov District, and there they were shot to death. Local people testified that some little children were thrown into the pit-grave alive. Since the grave was so filled [with bodies] and [although?]compactly covered over with earth, human blood rose to the surface. Therefore, for the next two weeks the Germans took lime from the Antoniny sugar factory to cover the grave....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-793 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19710
Manevtsy Area
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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