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Murder Story of Rechitsa Jews at the Dniepr Crossing in Rechitsa
Murder Site
Rechitsa
Belorussia (USSR)
In October 1941, a German motorcycle messenger and a German car driver shot 9 Jews, among them 4 children, at the Dniepr crossing. The shooting was carried out, after a document check, on the initiative of the those two Germans without any order from the German command.
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Soviet Reports
The Soviet report from Rechitsa
During his division's stay in Rechitsa, in October 1941, Fisher served as a motorcycle messenger. One day he was sent from the radio station premises located across the Dniepr to the division headquarters in the town of Rechitsa. At the Dniepr crossing he noticed a group of Jews consisting of two men, three women, and four children who were planning to cross the Dniepr. On his own initiative, together with the driver of a car who happened to be nearby, he began to check these people's documents. As soon as he realized that all of them were Jews he shot to death the 19-year old girl in the group with his rifle. The other eight people were murdered by the driver, whose identity is unknown.
NARB, MINSK 4-29-114 copy YVA M.41 / 2433
Rechitsa
river bank
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
52.365;30.394