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Murder Story of Rożyszcze Jews at the Rożyszcze Jewish Cemetery
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In the period after the liquidation of the Rożyszcze ghetto most of the Jews who managed to escape from the ghetto in time or had gone into hiding were caught by Ukrainian auxiliary police. They [the Jews] were taken in groups to a pit in a field near the Jewish cemetery, made to strip naked, and forced into the pit, where they had to lie face down. Members of a German murder squad then shot them to death with machine-guns.
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From the testimony of Pessia Gruber(Kalika), who was born in 1926 in Rożyszcze and was living there during the German occupation
… In the same week [after the murder operation on August 22, 1942] the Germans and Ukrainians [auxiliary police] managed to catch [in hiding] about 100 Jews who escaped from the ghetto. They joined me to this group and took all of us to a field near the [Jewish] cemetery, where we were told to dig graves [for ourselves]. The Germans told us to strip naked… Those who didn't want to strip naked were beaten [by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen]. I refused to get undressed, and one Ukrainian [policeman] heat me with his rifle but. Without thinking for long, I started to run away. The Ukrainian policeman shot me, hitting me in the arm. I continued to run, reached a grove of bushes, and lay down in it. He reached me and kicked me, but I didn't move. The Ukrainian policeman was convinced that I was dead and left.…
Rożyszcze Memorial Book, published by the Association of Ex- Rożyszcze Jews in Israel (2009), p. 26 (Hebrew)
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Entrance to the Jewish cemetery
Sergei Shvardovskii (Ukraine), Copy YVA 14616539
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Sergei Shvardovskii (Ukraine), Copy YVA 14616540