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Murder Story of Horodno Jews at the Horodno Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Horodno
Poland
Apparently in early August 1941, 55 or 56 Jewish males of various ages over 14, including many old people, were collected from their homes, taken to a local school building, and then shot at the local Jewish cemetery. Some sources, however, date the operation to July 1941, and report that the Jewish men were burned to death. According to some testimonies, the victims were beaten and abused before being shot. The operation was carried out by members of an SS cavalry brigade.
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Ascher Turkenitz, who was born in Horodno in 1927 and lived there during the war years, testified:
...They collected fifty-sixty Jews … they caught them and collected them at the school and locked them up…. They were murdered: they were taken to the cemetery. When there were about fifty five or fifty something Jews, they dug a pit and shot them. This was about a year after the war began [sic]. More or less...
YVA O.33 / 7809
Iosif Dryzhuk, who was born in 1925 in Horodno and lived there during the war years, testified:
…And SS soldiers came and immediately all the old people were collected from Jewish villages and taken to one place and burned. They were about 50 people. … This was in Horodno [here: Gorodnaya] itself. This was the first pogrom. It was in July.
YVA O.3 / 9719
Horodno
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Poland
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Grigorii Druzhinin, who was born in 1925 in Horodno and lived there during the war years, testified:
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