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Murder story of Pohost Zagorodski Jews in the Vegetable Garden of the Misherovich Family
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A short time after the murder operation that was carried out on August 14, 1942 (some sources say on the following day), the Jews, mostly teenagers and children, who had been hiding in a cellar in one of the ghetto houses, were found by the Germans and shot in the area of the vegetable garden of local resident Nikolay Misherovich. The reported number of the victims ranged from 27 to 35.
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From the testimony of Yitzhak Yuzhuk, who was born in 1925 in Pohost Zagorodski and lived there during the war years:
The day after the [murder] operation someone reported that 27 more Jews, most of them young people and children, had been hiding in a cellar. They were found and shot in the vegetable garden of Kolya Misherevich.
Leonid Smilovitsky, ed., The Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-1944 , Tel Aviv, 2000, pp. 220-223 (Russian)
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