On November 15, 1941 247 Jews were taken by SD men and local policemen from Uvarovich village to a local grain storage site and shot to death.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Ludmila Lutskina, who was born in 1931 and lived in Uvarovichi during the war years, testified:
Interview by Alexander Litin in 2015
I was living on Komsomolskaya Street, near which there was a field with large rectangular pits. One day we saw Jews being taken, with their possessions. Our shed had a crack and, together with my father, I could see everything... We recognized many of them since they were local Jews. They had been told that they were going to be relocated, so that is why they had their possessions with them and their children. The children were screaming... My father suspected something bad was about to happen, and he left the place from where he was watching, but Mother and I continued to watch until all of them were murdered.
YVA O.101 / 616
Grain Storage Site in Uvarovichi
storeroom
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Grain-storage murder site, contemporary view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2015.