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Murder Story of Vyazma Jews at the Vyazma Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Vyazma
Russia (USSR)
Various Soviet documents report that some Jewish doctors were shot to death, either as members of the intelligentsia or as Jews. Dr. Meir Birstein, together with other Jews, was shot on February 25, 1942, while Dr. Mikhail Nurok was shot in September 1942. All the [remaining] Jews of Vyazma was murdered, a number of them with particular brutality. Several victims were buried alive. Most of the shootings were apparently carried out at the Jewish cemetery. The precise number of victims is not known.
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Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From The Einsatzgruppen Reports
December 17, 1941
Operational Situation Report No.147 Actions against officials, agents, saboteurs, and Jews
After summary proceedings the following were shot:….
In Vyazma a Jew who belonged to the Communist Party since 1928 and held the office of a Politruk in the Red Army….
The Jews Naychin and his wife and three other Jews who had made derogatory remarks concerning the German Army
Arad, Yitzhak, Krakowski, Shmuel and Spector, Shmuel. The Einsatzgruppen reports : selections from the dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' campaign against the Jews July 1941-January 1943 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1989, p. 261.
Vyazma
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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