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Murder Story of Urechye Jews on Zelenaya Street in Urechye
Murder Site
Zelenaya Street in Urechye
Belorussia (USSR)
After the murder of most of the Jewish residents of Urechye, some 86-120 Jewish professionals remained alive. On August 4, 1943 (or in June 1942), all of them were murdered near Urechye, at a location that the Soviet sources designate the "4th Artillery Regiment Tract" (on present-day Zelenaya Street in Urechye, near Kuybyshev Street).
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Urechye
We have conducted a forensic examination of the mass shooting and burial site near the airfield of the village of Urechye, where the Germans shot Soviet civilians. There, one pit, 10 meters long and 5 meters wide, was discovered. After the exhumation of the grave pit, the commission determined: …the number of buried bodies is 125. The forensic medical examination has concluded that the bodies were buried in the pit in 1942.…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-82-9 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20000
Zelenaya Street in Urechye
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Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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