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Murder Story of Borovaya Jews on the Vasilkov Road
Murder Site
From Borovaya to Vasilkov Road
Ukraine (USSR)
According to some testimonies about 40 Jews from Borovaya who had been arrested in late September or early October 1941 by local Ukrainian auxiliary policemen were taken toward the town of Vasilkov, about 15 kilometers east of Borovaya. The deportees never arrived, but were shot on the way by auxiliary policemen.
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Soviet Reports
Nikolai Panasyuk, who was born in 1912, testified:
…The entire Jewish population of Borovaya village, about 40-45 people, was collected at the police station and escorted by policemen from Borovaya village toward the town of Vasilkov. However, they did not reach Vasilkov but were brutally massacred on the way. All of them were shot to death. [Among?] the participants in this atrocity were policemen from Borovaya, the local policemen Vasiliy Bokai and Nikolai Shevchenko….
HDASBU, KYIV 39182 copy YVA TR.18 / 355
Vera Dovgan, who was born in 1915, testified:
…The policemen of Borovaya village, together with German murder units, collected all the Jews, as many as 30 people, from Borovaya village in July 1941. The latter were shot to death while being taken under guard on the way to the town of Vasilkov. I learned about this from local eyewitnesses, whose last names I do not remember anymore….
HDASBU, KYIV 39182 copy YVA TR.18 / 355
From Borovaya to Vasilkov Road
road
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
50.173;30.103