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Murder Story of Demidov Jews in Dubrovka
Murder Site
Dubrovka
Russia (USSR)
According to several sources some Demidov Jews were shot in the vicinity of Dubrovka village. The exact date and the number of the Jewish victims are unknown.
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Written Testimonies
Sofiya Soinskaya (neé Peyko), who was born in 1921 in Demidov, testified:
The shooting site of the Demidov Jews is unknown. People said that they were shot near Dubrovka village, on the way from Demidov to Rudnya. There, in Dubrovka, my husband's aunt Fenya Moiseevna Soinskaya, a Dubrovka elementary school teacher, was shot. She was 45 years old.
Quoted from Iosif Tsynman, The Smolensk District Baby Yars, Smolensk, 2001, pp. 107-108, (Russian)
Dubrovka
Murder Site
Russia (USSR)
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