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Murder story of Zvenigorodka Jews in the Khlipnovka Forest
Murder Site
Khlipnovka Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one testimony about 100 Jewish men who were arrested in September 1941 were locked up in the building of the former Jewish orphanage in Zvenigorodka and, after being beaten and humiliated, were taken by truck to the forest near the village of Khlipnovka, about 5 kilometers north of Zvenigorodka, and shot dead, apparently by members of Einsatzgruppe C.
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From the Memoirs of Rakhil Kligman:
…In the month of September [1941] a murder squad arrested 85 people, all men, on the street. They were forced into the cellar of the building of the former Jewish orphanage. They were hit over the head with pieces of wood, had their outer clothing torn off, and were thrown into a closed vehicle, and then taken to the Khlipnovka Forest, where they were shot…
NBUV, KYIV B 2200 (2 190 337 (1 copy YVA O.76 / 66
Khlipnovka Forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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