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Murder story of Demidov Jews in the Demidov Area
Murder Site
Demidov Area
Russia (USSR)
Five young Jews, apparenly of the same height, age 15 and 16, were selected by the Germans and forced into a trench. Then they were buried alive in a standing position. Later the Germans pressed down the earth by driving a tank over the place where the victims had been buried.
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Written Testimonies
Sofiya Soinskaya (neé Peyko), who was born in 1921 in Demidov, testified:
The Germans selected five teenagers 15-16 years old, of the same height, of Jewish origin. They [the Germans] forced them into a trench and buried them alive in an upright position. Then they [the Germans] drove a tank over them and leveled the spot. My brother Dodik Peyko, a 9th grade pupil, was among them.
Iosif Tsynman, The Smolensk District Baby Yars, Smolensk, 2001, pp. 107-108 (Russian)
Demidov Area
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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