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Murder story of Mizocz Jews in the Mizocz Ghetto
Murder Site
Mizocz
Poland
On October 14, 1942, in the morning, when the Germans began to drive the inmates of the ghetto to the collection point, in order not to fall into German hands and to try to escape from the town, members of the underground movement (that included Judenrat members, apparently, with its head Shtivel), as well some other inmates of the ghetto, set many of the ghetto houses on fire; as a result, while many succeeded in escaping, about 200 people died in the flames inside the ghetto.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Mizocz
… [On October 14, 1942], under the impact of the brutal reprisal of the Fascist occupiers against [Jewish] residents, some of the Jewish residents [of the ghetto] set on fire a whole quarter/neighborhood … in the town of Mizocz, where they were living with their families and, in order not to fall into the hands of the German-Fascist occupiers, they threw themselves into the fire; thus 200 Jews were burned [alive]. …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-71-59 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19975
From the testimony of Miron Slivchuk, who was born in 1902 and who was living in Mizocz during its German occupation
… Besides, when the Germans occupied the town, the Jews, not wanting to fall into the hands of the Fascist monsters, set on fire a whole quarter of houses in the town; with their all families and children, they threw themselves into the fire and, thus, 200 were burned [alive]. …
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-71-59 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19975
Mizocz
Ghetto
Poland
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