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Murder Story of Berezdov Jews at the Berezdov Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Berezdov
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one testimony, apparently in the spring of 1942 several dozen Jews from the town were taken in groups, under German guard, to a pit that had been prepared near the Jewish cemetery. Upon their arrival at the site they were shot to death by a German murder squad.
Viktor Chornokrilyuk, who was born in 1935 and lived in Berezdov during the war years, testified:
…after some time, in the evening we saw a small group of Jews guarded by Germans taken to a trench [pit] next to the Jewish cemetery. … My grandfather said that there, at the Jewish cemetery that was surrounded by a small wall-fence, pits were being dug. In the morning shooting was heard from there. I approached the window, although my grandmother told me not to look, and I saw [Jewish] people being shot to death. On that day 20 Jews were shot to death [at the site]. That is the way, in groups, that the Fascists took the people to the shooting site. …
David Hoshkis, ed., Bleeding Wound, Slavuta, 1996, p.65 (Ukrainian).
Berezdov
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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