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Murder Story of Murovano Kurilovtsy Jews in Popova
Murder Site
Popova
Ukraine (USSR)
On October 16 (in September or October, according to some testimonies), 1942 most of the inmates of the Murovannye Kurilovtsy ghetto who had been spared during the August massacre were driven from their homes and taken to the market square. From there they were taken to Popova village, about 2 kilometers southeast of Murovannye Kurilovtsy and shot dead on the southwestern outskirts of the village, on the territory of the Stalin collective farm. The precise number of victims of this massacre is unknown. The perpetrators were apparently German rural and local auxiliary policemen.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Buzia Gertsberg, who was born in 1929, testified:
… On September 21, 1942 the Germans carried out a second murder operation in [Murovannye] Kurilovtsy, in the course of which all the survivors (mainly young people and several elderly ones, who had all succeeded in hiding during the first shooting) were shot.
They were shot at the so-called Popova Road (also about 3-4 kilometers from Kurilovtsy, but in another direction) and buried in pits….
YVA O.3 / 3777
Popova
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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