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Murder Story of Novaya Priluka Jews in Staraya Priluka
Murder Site
Staraya Priluka
Ukraine (USSR)
In November (September, according to one testimony), 1941 about 2,500 (according to Soviet reports) Jews from Novaya Priluka of all ages and both sexes were driven to Staraya Priluka village, about 2 kilometers north of Novaya Priluka. There the victims were forced to strip and lie down in ditches used before the war by a collective farm to store vegetables, and then they were shot dead. The exact date of this massacre is unknown. The perpetrators were members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C and local Ukrainian auxiliary policemen.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the Testimony of Yelizaveta Viner (Linskaya), who was born in 1930 in Novaya Priluka:
… The last pogrom was in September 1941. All [the Jews] were assembled. At that time I was in Staraya Priluka. At 4 [a.m.?] the trucks arrived and took everyone to Staraya Priluka and everyone was shot in the beet rows of the collective farm. Both Germans and [local auxiliary] policemen participated in the shooting. All of the Jews were forced to strip and lie down in ditches - one on top of the other – and then they were shot. Some were killed, some were not. The small children were thrown [into the trenches] just like that. All of them were buried. The earth was heaving in this place for three days. People said that some people had crawled out of the pit....
YVA O.3 / 4740
Staraya Priluka
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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