Site of the murder of Shpola Jews in the Daryevka Forest
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Murder story of Shpola Jews in the Daryevka Forest
Murder Site
Daryevka Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
On May 15 (or in July, according to one testimony, or in the fall, according to post-war proceedings against the German perpetrators), 1942 about 800 Jews from Shpola, mostly women, children, and elderly people were forced into a concentration camp. The latter was located on the premises of a former orphanage (a Pioneer camp, according to other testimonies) in Daryevka Forest, southwest of Shpola. From the camp the victims were taken to a pit that had been dug near the camp and shot to death by members of the German rural and local auxiliary police.
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From "In the City of Shpola and its Environs: Stories of local inhabitants recorded by a teacher named Kruglyak [1944]":
…Four kilometers from Shpola, in the depths of Darevsky [sic] Forest, there was a concentration camp where they kept people for a month. On May 15, 1942, 760 women, children, and elderly people were shot in a pit there. Before they were shot, they were mocked and abused in every way imaginable. The shooting was carried out by Ukrainian police under German command.
Before being shot, the daughter of Dr. Goldberg raised the hands of her two children and said that the blood of innocent children would not be forgiven the Germans….
Rubenstein, Joshua and Altman, Ilya. The unknown black book : the Holocaust in the German-occupied Soviet territories . Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2008, pp. 185-186.
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Site of the murder of Shpola Jews in the Daryevka Forest
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