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Murder Story of Pershotravensk Jews in Glubochok

Murder Site
Glubochok
Ukraine (USSR)
Apparently some of Pershotravensk's Jews were evacuated with the electro-technical porcelain factory where they worked. About 13 Jewish families remained in the village. According to documents from the factory's museum, the Jewish men were killed on August 25, 1941. According to these sources about 40 men were shot near the kolkhoz garden on the western outskirts of the nearby village of Glubochok. Their families, the women and the children, were taken to the ghetto in Baranovka. Other sources date the shooting to March 1942 and estimate the number of victims as 75 and report that the men, women, and children were murdered together. Some Jews were probably also shot at the local (non-Jewish) cemetery.
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Anatoliy Strelchuk. Photographer: 	Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
We are on the outskirts of Pervomaysk [Pershotravensk] village, at the place where during the war the Fascists shot to death the Jewish population of Pervomaysk. Although this burial place is not large, more than 70 people are buried here. Some family names have been identified, so their memory is preserved.… They were mostly workers of the electro-technical porcelain factory and their family members. One of the families consisted of the head of production scheduling and economic department, his wife, and their three children. Another family was that of a shop foreman; they were 3-4 people.... Those were the people who remained in the village and were not evacuated with the factory. They lived in Pervomaysk. And there were people from Lipki and Poninka villages. In toto, there were 74-78 people, unfortunately it is difficult to give all the names. There is one more grave at the cemetery, which is a Christian one; some of the Jews were shot there as well. Non-Jews were shot and buried together with them. I do not know their names. This was in March 1942, in the second murder operation. The sources used are cases in the police archives and witnesses.
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Glubochok
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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