Svisloch Bridge murder site in Dukora, contemporary view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2013.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615621
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Murder Story of Dukora Jews at the Svisloch Bridge in Dukora
Murder Site
Svisloch Bridge in Dukora
Belorussia (USSR)
On October 10, 1941 between 394 and 500 Dukora Jews were taken by Germans and a Lithuanian murder squad to a field near Svisloch Bridge and shot to death there. Local Belarusians were forced to bury the bodies of the victims.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Dukora
In 1941 in the village of Dukora a German murder squad murdered 394 innocent Jewish civilians. Their bodies were buried in a common grave.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20009
Svisloch Bridge in Dukora
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Svisloch Bridge murder site in Dukora, contemporary view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2013.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615621
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943-1945, regarding crimes committed in the vicinity of Rudensk, in the Minsk Region, Belorussia
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20009