Murder Story of Chernevtsy Jews at the Murafa Bridge

On July 27, 1941 a military unit that was passing through Chernevtsy randomly rounded up about 10 to 15 (several dozen, according to some survivor testimonies) Jewish men, mostly elderly religious people, took them to the bridge over the Murafa River and, after abusing them, threw them into the river from a height of 10 meters. The victims who tried to swim were shot dead by rifle- or submachine-gun fire. The identity of the perpetrators is not clear. Most testimonies referred to Romanian or Hungarian soldiers (it is unknown to which unit they might have belonged) as the murderers, while some testimonies and Soviet reports indentified the perpetrators as Germans, without any indication of their military unit.