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Murder story of Fastov Jews in the Fastov Police Courtyard
Murder Site
Police Yard in Fastov
Ukraine (USSR)
In late July or August 1941 a group of about ten Jews was arrested in Fastov and taken to the county police station. After being beaten with sticks and abused, all of them were shot in the yard of the police station.
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Soviet Reports
From the Indictment against former Fastov County police chief Ivan Lanovoy and former deputy head of the Fastov branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Nikolai Kucherenko:
…In July 1941 seven Soviet civilians of the town of Fastov were shot in the yard of the Fastov municipal police [station], in the presence of Lanovoy, because they were Jewish…
HDASBU, KYIV 46872 copy YVA TR.18 / 359
Ivan Lanovoy, who served as Fastov County police chief during the war years, testified at the Soviet juridical proceedings:
…In about August [1941] seven Soviet civilians were shot in the police yard because they were of Jewish origin. A grave was dug in the same place, in the police yard, and all of them were buried in it…Before they were shot, these Soviet people were forced to dance, were beaten with sticks, were abused in all possible ways and then afterwards were shot…
HDASBU, KYIV 46872 copy YVA TR.18 / 359
Police Yard in Fastov
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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