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Murder story of Yaltushkov Jews in the Yakushintsy Quarries
Murder Site
Yakushintsy
Ukraine (USSR)
According to the testimony of one Holocaust survivor from Yaltushkov, the able-bodied Jews deported to the Yakushintsy labor camp in Vinnitsa County were forced to work in the quarries there and then were murdered there. It is not known how many victims were murdered in Yakushintsy, when they were murdered, or who carried out their murder.
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Written Testimonies
From the Written Testimony of Nikolai Pichkar, January 28, 1990
"…In July 1942 50 able-bodied Jews were selected in the ghetto and taken by truck to Yakushintsy, Vinnitsa District. There they were made to carry out hard work in quarries and then were shot to death there…"
YVA O.33 / 2613
Yakushintsy
quarry
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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