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Murder Story of Novaya Praga Jews on the Sharovka Road
Murder Site
Sharovka Road
Ukraine (USSR)
On June 9, 1942 the Jews, including old people and children, were shot 3 kilometers from Novaya Praga on the way to Sharovka village. The shooting was carried out by members of the auxuliary police.
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Written Testimonies
From the testimony of Leonid Elbert, who was born in 1923 and lived in Novaya Praga during the war years:
At dawn on June 9, 1941 the old people and the children, my brother included, were taken and shot 3 kilometers from Novaya Praga on the way to Sharovka village. The shooting was carried out by Ukrainians and Latvians.
From Marina Mikhaulyuk, ed., We Survived: The Kirovograd District and Kirovograd Residents during the Years of the Holocaust Kirovograd, 2011, p. 82 (Ukrainian).
Sharovka Road
street
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.34;32.55