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Murder story of Demidowka Jews in the Demidówka Area
Murder Site
Demidówka Area
Poland
According to the ChGK report, apparently in late October 1942 some fifty Jews, mainly young people who had been caught hiding in the ghetto, were tortured; the girls were raped, and then all of them were shot dead in Demidówka by members of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, headed by Ivan Kovalchuk.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Demidówka
...[The opening] of mass grave No. 5 ([located in the] town of Demidówka)
The size of the grave is 5 х 7 meters. [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen, headed by Ivan Kovalchuk, shot fifty Jews taken from the ghetto of the town of Demidówka. During the examination of the bodies, we found bodies of victims with lethal wounds in the forehead, and broken arms and legs. As residents of the village of Bakiyma testified, [before the shooting] the German monsters had collected about fifty [Jewish] youth of this village [sic, for Demidóvka] and begun to torture them: hanging [the victims] by their legs from the ceiling, tying together [their] arms and legs, and then they hanged [them] from the ceiling for 15-20 hours. The [Jewish] girls were raped, and then killed.…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-71-46 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19974
Demidówka Area
forest
Murder Site
Poland
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