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Murder story of Ozarintsy Jews in the Ozarintsy Market Square

Murder Site
Ozarintsy
Ukraine (USSR)
On July 25, 1941 about 30 Jewish men of Ozarintsy were taken from their homes by Romanian soldiers, and brought to the market square of the town, where they were brutally abused. Then they were forced to lie down in the middle of the town and were stabbed to death or shot dead.
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From the Memoirs of Ilya Shisman, who was born in 1933:
... 5 mounted Romanian murderers arrived in town. We were later told that they were from the "Wild Division" [?]. They burst into the houses of the Jews, searching for men everywhere. Whoever did not manage to hide was taken to the market square. On this day 28 were found. They were not shot but were "skinned," butchered like pigs with Finnish knives, stabbed multiple times lethally in the stomach and in the chest. They had stars cut on their backs and foreheads. When they [the murderers] saw a tattooed anchor on the forearm of Itzik Entin, they cut it off together with the skin; they gauged out the eyes and cut off the beard of Itzik Fuks. While the dying victims were crying from pain, the butchers shouted that they were taking vengeance on the kikes for [what they had supposedly done in] Bessarabia, and then washed their hands - I have no idea why – with the pool of blood they had shed. This slaughter took place before the eyes of all the Jews who had been driven to the market square – the elderly, women, and children….
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Ozarintsy
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Lazar Boravskii was born in 1935 in Ozarintsy and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 36083 copy YVA O.93 / 36083
Liba Lozover was born in 1926 in Ozarintsy and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 23829 copy YVA O.93 / 23829