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Murder Story of Pohost Zagorodski Jews at the Kamień Jewish Cemetery
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On August 10, 1941, 100-150 Jewish men from Pohost Zahorodzki were arrested and taken to the center of the town. Among those taken were a local rabbi, a local kosher slaughterer, the most educated people in the community, and some boys age twelve and above. In the center of the town they were beaten and the rabbi was abused in front of the others. Then the Jews were taken to the local Jewish cemetery located near Kamień village. There they were stripped naked and shot in a ditch with pistols in groups of five. Six Belarusians, Soviet activists from Kamień and, probably, from other places, were murdered together with the Jews.
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From the testimony of Yitskhak Yuzhuk, who was born in 1925 in Pohost Zagorodski and lived there during the war years:
Only later did we learn that on the same day, August 10, 1941, the Nazis shot to death 130 Jewish men from Pohost and 6 Soviet activists from Kamień village. The first mass shooting was carried out next to the old Jewish cemetery near the village of Kamień. The doomed people were taken by cart, but they did not suspect they were being driven to their inevitable death. They believed they were being taken to work. The dune path led upwards and the carts could not get there. The Jews were told to dismantle the wooden cemetery fence and to pave the way with its pieces. This was the final way in the life of our father and in the lives of those who were with him.
Ytzhak Yuzhuk, ed., Memory Lesson, Rishon Lezion, 2015, p. 33 (Hebrew).
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