Yad Vashem logo

Murder story of Rechitsa Jews in the Railway Area in Rechitsa

Murder Site
Rechitsa
Belorussia (USSR)
Former murder site in the vicinty of the rail road. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2014.
Former murder site in the vicinty of the rail road. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2014.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614582
On November 27, 1941 at least 12 Jews, according to witness testimony, women and children, were shot to death by the Germans in the vicinity of the rail road.

untoldStories.relatedResources
From the testimony of Lyuba Yastrebitskaya, who was born in 1925 in Rechitsa and lived there during the war years:
To be translated
On November 27, 1941, near the rail road, I witnessed Stasya Shklova, … 30 years old, being shot by the Germans. The Vasilevitskiy family, consisting of five members, were shot in my presence: Chaya Vasilevitskaya … 59 years old, her daughter Zinaida Vasilevitskaya, 33 years old, her granddaughter Elizaveta Khazfan, born in 1932, her daughter Stasya Vasilevitskaya, born in 1933, and her son Khatskel Vasilevitskiy, born in 1930. And the Gurarii family – Mrs. Gurarii, 59 years old, and her sister-in-law Sarah Gurarii, 50 years old; and three members of the Kaganovich family – Khana Kaganovich, 30 years old, her daughter Fanya Kaganovich, one year old, another Kaganovich daughter, but I do not know her name, who was born in 1939; the civilian Badana Kogalman, … 49 years old, the civilian Sofiya Romanovskaya, … born around 1915. All the people mentioned above were of Jewish origin.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-85-217 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20006
Rechitsa
railroad
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
52.365;30.394
Former murder site in the vicinty of the rail road. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2014.
Former murder site in the vicinty of the rail road. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2014.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614582