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Murder story of Uman Jews in the Teachers' Seminary Building in Uman

Murder Site
Teachers' Seminary Building in Uman
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one testimony, in the second half of September 1941 a number of members of the Jewish intelligentsia of Uman were hanged, probably by members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C, near the building in which the teachers' seminary of Uman had been located before the war.
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From the Testimony of Buzia Sigalova, who was born in 1925:
…In September [1941], before Rosh haShana, they took the aristocratic [members of the upper class or of the intelligentsia] Jews, doctors [etc.] and hanged them where a teachers' seminary had been located. I saw this myself. Among them (I now recall) was Dr. Dimanshteyn. There was also Dr. Butsies, but I do not remember the others…
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Teachers' Seminary Building in Uman
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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