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Murder story of Buki Jews in the Antonovka Forest
Murder Site
Antonovka Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In late 1941 most Buki Jews, probably several hundred people of all ages and both sexes, were murdered in the forest near the village of Antonovka, about 5 kilometers northwest of Buki. Apparently in the spring of 1942, an unknown number of Jewish inmates of the Buki labor camp deemed unfit for work were murdered at the same location. It is not possible to identify the perpetrators of both of these massacres.
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Written Testimonies
From the letter of Leonid Dayman sent to Yad Vashem on July 31, 1997:
…Then we went to the village of Antonovka where [our] father’s mother (our grandmother), our father’s sister with her nursing baby, and many others were shot. The road to that site was shown to us by a man who happened to live in Antonovka who, as it turned out, was the former chairman of the rural council. He also cared for the mass grave there…
YVA O.32 / 350
Antonovka Area
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)