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Murder Story of Chernobyl Jews at the Jewish Cemetery in Chernobyl

Murder Site
Chernobyl
Ukraine (USSR)
On November 19, 1941 (according to one testimony and the inscription on the monument to the Holocaust victims of Chernobyl), about 400 to 500 Jews from Chernobyl of all ages and both sexes were taken to the Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of Chernobyl and shot dead by members of Einsatzgruppe C, who were assisted by local auxiliary policemen. The same place also served as the murder site for Jews who were hiding in villages and forests surrounding Chernobyl but were eventually caught. Thus, in the fall or winter of 1941, a group of about twenty Jews was murdered at the same place, apparently also by members of Einsatzgruppe C and local auxiliaries.
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Grigori Kushnirenko, who served as auxiliary policeman in Chernobyl during the war years, testified:
…[I]n the fall of 1941, I arrested and took from her apartment to the police [station] under armed guard the Jewish woman Rosa Isakovna Kaganovich-Golovnenko. At the time of her arrest she was ill, with swollen and frostbitten feet. I took her without footwear across the bare ground and, at times, through the snow. Her feet were only wrapped in foot-bindings. When I brought her to a police [station], she was locked up there. She was kept imprisoned for about four days without food since such prisoners were barred from receiving packages and they did not get any rations from the police. After four days, together with other Jews, she was taken to the Jewish cemetery and shot….
HDASBU, KYIV 56141 copy YVA TR.18 / 363
Chernobyl
cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
51.274;30.240
Moisei Berenshtein was born in Chernobyl in 1918 and was living there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 36281 copy YVA O.93 / 36281