Murder Site of Smela's Jews, near Belozorye village
Lo Tishkakh Foundation, Copy YVA 14616330
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Murder Story of Smela Jews at Yuryeva Gora
Murder Site
Yuryeva Gora
Ukraine (USSR)
According to information obtained by the Lo Tishkakh Foundation several hundred Jews were shot in August 1941 in the forested area known as Yuryeva Gora, about 10 kilometers northwest of Smela, between Smela and Belozorye village. The perpetrators of this massacre were apparently members of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division.
In January or February 1942 several hundred Jews from Smela and from nearby villages were shot to death at the same location. The exact date of this massacre is not known. It was probably carried out by German rural and local auxiliary policemen.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Smela
…The shootings [in Smela] were carried out…in the forest near the city…
TsDAHOU, KYIV 1-23-1062 copy YVA M.37 / 177
Yuryeva Gora
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Murder Site of Smela's Jews, near Belozorye village
Lo Tishkakh Foundation, Copy YVA 14616330