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Murder Story of Staryye Dorogi Jews in Kosharka

Murder Site
Kosharka
Belorussia (USSR)
Kosharka murder site. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2012.
Kosharka murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615613
On 6 August 1941, some Jews were taken from the ghetto to the Kosharka Ravine, near a military camp, and shot to death. A second murder operation in Kosharka took place on January 19, 1942, when all the remaining Jews of Kosharka were forced to undress and then were murdered.
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Nina Davydova, who was born in 1925, testified: Interview by Alexander Litin in 2011
... We lived in Slobodka, not far from Starye Dorogi. The Jews were shot on the way to Slobodka. Not far from the place where they shot the Jews, and then some non-Jews, there stood a wooden hut where the Tomashevich family lived. In 1942 I heard people saying that the Jews had been shot, that the earth was heaving. When a monument was dedicated there, we wanted to have a look. There were many people there. That was in 1995… After the Jews, they shot Russians from the Gestapo prison. They themselves [the victims] dug the pit [their grave]. Mr. Tomashevich saw this. I don't know the exact place where they shot the Jews. One monument was erected for all the victims – the Russian Orthodox ones, the Catholics, and the Jews....
YVA O.101 / 614
Kosharka
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
53.037;28.279
Kosharka murder site. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2012.
Kosharka murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615613