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Murder story of Shpola Jews in the Shostakovo Grove
Murder Site
Shostakovo Grove
Ukraine (USSR)
In late December 1942, Jews from Shpola who had been sent in May of the same year to the Shostakovo labor camp in Katerinopol County were taken in groups to a pit dug in a grove near Shostakovo village and were shot dead by German rural and local auxiliary policemen. The number of the victims of this massacre is unknown.
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Written Testimonies
From the Testimony of Elizaveta Tuchina, who was born in 1919:
…This lasted until early December or rather late December [1942].
A week before the New Year they gathered everyone in the camp. First, they took all the men, gave them shovels, and took them away somewhere. The camp was surrounded by many Germans and policemen, who prevented anyone from getting away.
They took the men somewhere to a grove, forced them to dig pits, and murdered them there. In that way [the victims] continued to be taken in groups to the forest, where pits had been dug, and were murdered there.
Together with several other people, I hid….
YVA O.3 / 3935
Shostakovo Grove
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
49.004;31.396