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Murder Story of Cherkassy Jews at the Cherkassy Water Tower
Murder Site
Water Tower in Cherkassy
Ukraine (USSR)
According to the testimony of a non-Jewish resident of Cherkassy, an unknown number of Jews were shot in mid-December 1941 near a water tower in the city. The identity of the perpetrators of this murder is not known.
N.G. Lipa, who stayed in Cherkassy during the war years, testified:
… I spent December 1941 in Cherkassy. On December 18 a shooting of the kikes was carried out behind the water tower…
TsDAHOU, KYIV 166-3-256 copy YVA M.37 / 1219
Water Tower in Cherkassy
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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