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Murder Story of Minsk Jews at the Wallpaper Factory in Minsk
Murder Site
Wallpaper Factory in Minsk
Belorussia (USSR)
According to one testimony, during the mass-murder operation of early March 1942, several hundred Jewish women and children were collected in the courtyard of the wallpaper factory in Shpalernaya Street in the center of the ghetto. There, they were subjected to abuse, and then shot.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimonies of E. Barushanskaya, E. Botvinnik, and G. Goldbergformer, former inmates of the Minsk Ghetto:
…On March 2 [1942], a large number of children were herded to Shpalernaya Street and shot in the courtyard of the wallpaper factory. On March 2, as many as 200 children and a large number of women were shot. Before being shot, the women were forced to dance….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-87-123 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20010
Wallpaper Factory in Minsk
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Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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