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Murder Story of Rechitsa Jews in a Dugout at the Rechitsa Prison

Murder Site
Rechitsa
Belorussia (USSR)
In late November 1941 a group of three Jewish women was arrested and held for three days in prison. On November 29, 1941 they were shot in a dugout at the prison.

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From the testimony of Lyuba Yastrebitskaya, who was born in 1925 in Rechitsa and lived there during the war years:
Documentation of the Extraordinary State Commission for the investigation of Nazi crimes in the Soviet Union from 1944 regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in the Rechitsa district in 1941
On November 26,[1941] …following the order of the German "SD" punitive department policemen came to my apartment and arrested my mother Mariya Borisovna Yastrebinskaya - 59 years old, my brother's wife. Nina Mikhaylovna Yastrebinskaya - 39 years old, and her daughter Sofiya Yastrebinskay, born in 1930. All the three people mentioned above were of Jewish origin. After the above-mentioned civilians were taken into custody, the policemen loaded them onto a cart and drove them to a building near the prison on Sovetskaya Street. On November 29, 1941 in my presence, the above-mentioned civilians were shot to death in a dug-out at the prison.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-85-217 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20006
Rechitsa
dugout
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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