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Murder story of Kiwerce Jews in the Tsuman Forest
Murder Site
Tsuman Forest
Poland
In the early morning of a day in May in 1942 a group of Security Police and SD members, together with the 1st Motorized Gendarmerie Platoon from Łuck arrived in town in five trucks. With the assistance of Ukrainian auxiliary police, they surrounded the barracks, woke its Jewish inhabitants, and loaded them half-naked and barefoot onto trucks. Upon their arrival in the Tsuman Forest near Łuck, 270 Jews - 30 men and 240 women and children - were shot to death by members of those two German security forces.
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From the testimony of Henryk Zafeen, a dentist, who was born in 1916 in Lublin, Poland and apparently arrived in Kiewerce prior to the war
… May 10, 1942. On this day, in the morning, Gestapo men arrived the town in five trucks, surrounded the barracks, and loaded the people, [half] naked and barefoot straight from sleep onto trucks, took them to the [Tsuman] Forest near [the city of] Łuck, and murdered all of them. Not a single one survived.
YVA O.3 / 1165
Tsuman Forest
Murder Site
Poland
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