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Murder story of Yaltushkov Jews in the Litin Forest
Murder Site
Litin Area
Ukraine (USSR)
According to the testimony of one Holocaust survivor from Yaltushkov, several dozen Jews deported from Yaltushkov to the Yakushintsy labor camp in Vinnitsa County were taken to the forest near the town of Litin, the [administrative] center of the county, that was adjacent to both Bar and Vinnitsa Counties, and were shot there. The details - the exact date, the precise number of the victims, and the identity of the perpetrators - are not known.
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From the memoirs of Leib Fayngut, “My Yaltuskov”:
"…The remaining Jews were taken, like the first ones, to the square and again the elderly and young were selected from the others. The latter were loaded onto two trucks and taken to the concentration camp in the village of Yakushintsy. There, after exhausting work on widening the highway, they were shot and buried in the Litin Forest…"
YVA O.33 / 3168
Litin Area
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Leib Faingut was born in 1920 in Yaltushkov and lived there during the war years
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