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Murder Story of Krugloye Jews at the Krugloye Flax Factory
Murder Site
Krugloye
Belorussia (USSR)
Small groups of Jews as well as individual Jews were shot in a ravine near the local flax factory. The exact days of the shootings and the number of the victims are unknown.
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Written Testimonies
Igor Pozharitskiy, who was born in 1921 and lived in Krugloye during the war years, testified: Interviewed by Alexander Litin in 2008
The policeman […] plundered the Jews. Shot them and plundered. They said about a Jewish woman with two children. He came, arrested her took her possessions, whatever he wanted. They said he raped her. [He] Shot her and the children in the trench next to the flax factory.
The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
Krugloye
factory
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
54.248;29.788