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Murder story of Horochow Jews in the Horochów Town Park
Murder Site
Horochow
Poland
On a date believed to be August 12, 1941, trucks with Ukrainian auxiliary policemen arrived in Horochów, together with Gestapo officers from Łuck and a unit of Einsatzkommado 4a. According to a list, Ukrainian police rounded up 300 (or, according to the ChGK document, 400) prominent Jewish men, several of whom had been previously released from police custody, while several other Jews were taken from the neighboring town of Druszkopol. All these men were taken to the town park. They were made to dig a large pit in the area of the park and then, in groups of 10-20, they were forced into the pit and shot to death in the back of the head with pistols by Germans. The shooting lasted for several hours.
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Miriam Berger, who was born in 1903 in Horochów and lived there during the war years, testified:
In the afternoon during one day in August two trucks full of Ukrainian [auxiliary] policemen and Gestapo men [arrived in the town]. Within a few minutes some local Ukrainian youth joined them and in one hour they drove from their homes or caught on the street 300 Jewish males, including teenagers of 14 years old.… Those who had been caught, among them my husband Dov Berger, my brother-in-law Shmuel Kolchinsky, and my brother Shmuel, were taken to the yard of the police station. From there they were taken to the nearby forest [sic, for park], where they were ordered to dig a broad and deep pit. When the digging was finished, they were taken in groups, with the unfortunates having no idea of what was going to be done to them. The Ukrainian [auxiliary policemen] made sure that no one could escape while the Germans carried out the killing. After this murder, they leveled the pit and drove away.
Yosif Karive ed.: Horchiv Memorial Book (Horchiv Committee in Israel, Tel Aviv, 1966), p. 236 (in Hebrew)
Horochow
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Murder Site
Poland
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