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Murder story of Voronezh Jews in the Popov Ravine
Murder Site
Popov Ravine
Russia (USSR)
In September 1942 several trucks took Voronezh residents from Khokhol village to Popov Ravine. The shooting victims numbered 77. According to documents found in the mass grave after the liberation some victims were Jews. The exact number of Jewish victims remains unknown.
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From the testimony of Rimma Gostrer, who was born in Voronezh in 1927, from July 9, 1992
In the summer of 1942 they bombed Voronezh and then the Germans entered and began their slaughter of the Jews. Together with other victims, Karp Isayevich and his daughter Sonya were taken toward Khokhol village (in the Voronezh District), where they were shot and thrown into pits that had been dug ahead of time. We returned to Voronezh in September 1944. A brochure I got hold of described this massacre near Khokhol. The brochure said that K. Kozlovskiy and his daughter Sofia were among the victims. During the exhumation of the bodies a bag with their identity papers was found.
YVA O.33 / 3259
Popov Ravine
ravine
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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