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Murder Story of Targowica Jews in a Barn near Targowica
Murder Site
Barn near Targowica
Poland
Apparently on July 30 or 31, 1941, after being registered, 130 Jewish men, among them the rabbi of Targowica(according to the ChGK document, the number included some Poles and Ukrainians), were locked up in the cellar of a local school. On August 1 they were taken from the cellar to a barn located 1 kilometer from Targowica. After their arrival at the murder site, the men were made to dig several pits; then they were lined up in front of these pits and shot to death by a German unit.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Targowica
… On June 25 [sic] 1941 a German [murder] squad suddenly surrounded the town of Targowica … and forced all its residents to a collection point, from which they [the Germans] mainly took the Jewish men and locked them up in the cellar [of a school]. On the next day they [the Germans] took these people outside town to a barn, which was surrounded by [German] troops. These people were forced to dig graves for themselves and [then] were shot to death. Thus, were shot to death [the number is illegible] people, mainly Jews, but their number also included some Poles and Ukrainians.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-71-61 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19975
Barn near Targowica
Murder Site
Poland
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