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Murder story of Novograd Volynskiy Jews in the Sukhovolya Forest
Murder Site
Sukhovolya Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
Every week enfeebled and sick inmates of the Novograd Volynskiy ghetto were taken by train to the forest near Sukhovlya village and murdered there. Some witnesses say they were shot in groups in several graves [pits] located opposite the rail way station.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
From "The Horrors for the Jewish Population Began From the First Days of the Occupation"
The testimony of Grigoriy Vaynerman, who was born in 1927
The people perished due to their hard labor. Every week a group of weakened and exhausted ones was selected and taken to the Sukhovolya Forest in the direction of Gorodnitsa and were shot there.
Boris Zabarko, ed., Only We Remained Alive (Kiev, 2000), p. 81 (Russian).
Sukhovolya Forest
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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