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Murder story of Aleksandrovka Jews in the Zagayko Forest
Murder Site
Zagayko
Ukraine (USSR)
At the beginning of 1942 or, according to some sources, in February 1942, the inhabitants of the ghetto in Aleksandrovka, as well as Jews from nearby villages, were put on carts and taken to the Zagayko Forest. There they were met by carts with Jews from Kamenka-Shevchenkovskaya who were guarded by policemen. All the Jews from both locations were shot to death in the Zagayko Forest. Some sources say that policemen from Aleksandrovka were the ones who shot the Jews to death.
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Soviet Reports
The Soviet report from Aleksandrovka:
... The accused ... also confirmed other facts about the mass shootings perpetuated in February 1942 by the police of Kamenka and Aleksandrovka in the vicinity of the Zagayko Forest, where more than 400 Soviet civilians of Jewish origin - men, women, and children - were shot....
DAKO, KROPYVNYTSKYI R-6656-2-1 copy YVA M.52 / 511
Zagayko
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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