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Murder Story of Werba Jews in Hranówka
Murder Site
Hranówka
Poland
On May 30, 1942 the Germans surrounded the ghetto and took its inmates -- about 350 men, women, and children -- to the area of the village of Hranówka, 7 kilometers southwest of the town of Werba. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the victims were forced to strip naked and were then shot to death by an SD detachment from Równe, with the assistance of a platoon from the 1st Company of the 33rd Reserve Police Battalion.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Werba
… In addition, the committee has information according to which, in the summer of 1942, in Werba the Germans arrested up to 350 Jewish men, women, and children. All of them were taken to the village of Hranówka [located] (7 kilometers [from Werba]) … where they were brutally shot to death and buried in one pit. What is more, according to eyewitnesses, the children were thrown into the pit alive.…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-71-43 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19974
Hranówka
Murder Site
Poland
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