Current view of the murder site area
Sergei Shvardovskii (Ukraine), Copy YVA 14616546
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Murder story of Samary Jews in the Samary Area
Murder Site
Samary Area
Poland
In the fall of 1942 members of several Jewish families, mainly old people, women, and children, were shot to death, apparently by members of the Gendarmerie (German order rural police) and another German unit just east of the village, in two big pits near Luka Lake.
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Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Vasilii Benedesyuk, who was born in 1924 in Samary and was living there during the German occupation of the village
… in the fall of 1942, I don't remember the exact date, … Germans, together with [Gendarmerie] policemen from Diwin, …. shot to death over 10 families of Soviet civilians [i.e., Jews], including elderly people, women, and children, in the village of Samary.…
HDASBU, KYIV 58270 copy YVA TR.18 / JM/ 23505
Samary Area
Murder Site
Poland
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Current view of the murder site area
Sergei Shvardovskii (Ukraine), Copy YVA 14616546