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Murder Story of Uman Jews at the Brick Factory in Uman
Murder Site
Brick Factory in Uman
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one testimony, Jewish children were either shot or buried alive on October 8 (or in early November), 1941 at the brick factory on the southwestern outskirts of Uman.
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Written Testimonies
From the testimony of Eliahu Shchupak:
… On November 6-8, 1941 the murder operations of Germans and Ukrainians against Jewish residents…
About 18 thousand [sic!] Jews -- men, women, and children -- were annihilated. Simultaneously with these operations, about 3,000 Jewish children [sic] were buried alive in two large pits dug by Ukrainians in the large area of the brick factory on the city's outskirts….
Binyamin West, ed., In the Death-Throes: Jews of Russia in the Nazi Holocaust (Tel Aviv, 1963) (Hebrew), pp. 47-48
Brick Factory in Uman
בית חרושת ליצור לבנים
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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