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Murder Story of Shepetovka Jews at the Shepetovka Synagogue
Murder Site
Shepetovka
Ukraine (USSR)
According to the testimony of O. Stetsyuk, a Ukrainian doctor who took care of the ghetto inmates of Shepetovka, Gendarmerie men used to come daily to the ghetto, randomly select several children and old people and shoot them to death at the square near the synagogue. The bodies of the victims were buried at the site.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimony of O. Stetyuk, a Ukrainian doctor who took care of the ghetto inmates of Shepetovka
…5-6 Gendarmerie men with rubber clubs in their hands,… used to come [to the ghetto] twice a day. The inmates of the camp [ghetto] had to appear before them, and each time [the Gendarmerie men] took 10-15 children and old people, as many as they wanted, and shot them to death on the spot, at the square near synagogue. After the murder the parents [of the children] returned home from [forced] labor and were in shock, lamenting their children. The bodies of the murder victims were buried in the camp near the synagogue.…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-64-818 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19712
Shepetovka
synagogue
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
50.183;27.064