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Shpola Related Murder Sites
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Murder Story of Shpola Jews at the Shostakovo Labor Camp
Murder Site
Shostakovo Labor Camp
Ukraine (USSR)
According to the testimony of a Holocaust survivor, Jews from Shpola who had been sent to the Shostakovo labor camp in Katerinopol County (just west of Shpola County) and who had become sick and were considered unable to work were shot in a pit dug in the middle of the camp. The date or dates of this massacre or these massacres, the number of victims, and the identity of the perpetrators are all unknown.
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Written Testimonies
From the Testimony of Elizaveta Tuchina, who was born in 1919:
QUESTION: Were the murders were carried out in the camp itself?
ANSWER: -Yes, yes. [The victims] were taken out, a pit was dug, and the people were murdered there on the spot…
YVA O.3 / 3935
Shostakovo Labor Camp
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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