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Murder Story of Czernawczyce Jews in Turna Mała
Murder Site
Malaya Turna
Poland
In 1942, approximately 200 Jews from Czarnawczyce were murdered near the village of Turna Mała, which lay two kilometers from Czarnawczyce. The pit that had been prepared for the shooting was not large enough to accommodate all the bodies, so local residents had to dig another one and rebury the victims in it. The exact date of the shooting is unknown.
Konstantin Trofimchuk, who was born in 1903 and lived in Czarnawczyce during the war year, testified:
In 1942, the Germans picked a shooting site for the Jews near the village of Turna Mała, two kilometers from Czarnawczyce. I cannot say how many were shot, but the Germans filled one large pit with bodies and covered it with a light layer of soil. Later, local residents dug another pit nearby and removed [the bodies] from it [the first one] in order to bury each body deeper and cover it with a thicker layer of soil. Approximately 200 bodies were buried there.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-83-11 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20001
Malaya Turna
Murder Site
Poland
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Sketch of the Malaya Turna murder site
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-83-11 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20001