Brodetsk Forest, site of the murder of Shpola deportees
Lo Tishkakh Foundation, Copy YVA 14616334
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Murder story of Shpola Jews in the Brodetsk Forest
Murder Site
Brodetsk Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
According to the testimony of a Holocaust survivor, in the fall of 1942 inmates of a labor camp (located in the village of Brodetsk in Katerinopol County) who had been sent there from Shpola and were considered unfit for work were murdered in the forest northeast of the village. The date of the massacre, the number of victims, and the identity of the perpetrators are all unknown.
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Written Testimonies
From the Testimony of Klara Vinokur, who was born in 1927:
In the late fall of 1942 all the people in my concentration camp were killed because it had become cold and they could not work any longer. Their mass grave is in the forest next to that village…
YVA O.3 / 6584
Brodetsk Forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Brodetsk Forest, site of the murder of Shpola deportees
Lo Tishkakh Foundation, Copy YVA 14616334