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Murder story of Sobolevka Jews in the Dolzhok Forest

Murder Site
Dolzhok Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
Dolzhok Forest Related Communities
Sobolevka
On May 27, 1942 about 400 Jews of Sobolevka were taken several kilometers away to the vicinity of Dolzhok town and shot dead in the forest. The perpetrators of the massacre were apparently German rural and local auxiliary policemen.
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Fira Kelmanskaya, who was born in 1926 in Sobolevka and lived there during the war years, testified:
Official document issued in 1989 by Sobolevka local authorities to Fira Kelmanskaya about the murder of her family in Sobolevka during the war years. A photograph from USC SHOAH FOUNDATION copy YVA O.93/11922
From the Official Document provided by E.A. Popik, the chairman of the executive committee of the Sobolevka rural council of people's deputies on May 26, 1989: This is given by the executive committee of the Sobolevka rural council of people's deputies to the citizen Fira Gertsovna Kelmanskaya (maiden name Strizhevskaya) [stating] that her 5 brothers and sisters were indeed buried alive on May 27, 1942 in the Sobolevka Blizhniy Dolzhok Forest…
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 11922 copy YVA O.93 / 11922
Dolzhok Forest
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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