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Murder Story of Rechitsa Jews at the Rechitsa Cemetery
Murder Site
Rechitsa
Belorussia (USSR)
In early September 1941 Jewish men who were able to work were forced to gather in one of the buildings in the industrial area of Rechitsa. Then they were marched west of the town to the murder site located near the cemetery, 2 kilometers away from the town. There the victims were shot to death by German soldiers and local collaborators. Estimates of the number of the victims range from 200 to 216. The bodies were later buried in an anti-tank trench.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
German Reports from Rechitsa
October 9, 1941
Operational Situation Report USSR No.108
Einsatzgruppe B In Rechitsa, 216 Jews were liquidated for having committed acts of sabotage and for refusing to work. They had, in addition, aided partisans and provided them with food.
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. 180.
Rechitsa
cemetery
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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