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Murder Story of Minsk Jews on Zamkovaya Street in Minsk
Murder Site
Zamkovaya Street in Minsk
Belorussia (USSR)
According to one testimony, in early 1943 German soldiers set fire to several buildings on Zamkovaya Street, in the eastern section of the ghetto, and shot anyone trying to flee the burning houses.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
From the judicial proceedings against Hans-Hermann Remmers and Carl Zenner, Koblenz, 1960:
December 23, 1945
From the testimony of Mera Zaretskaya (born 1910):
…In early 1943, the Germans set several houses on Zamkovaya Street on fire with hand grenades; residents trying to flee the flames were shot with submachine guns….
ZENTRALE STELLE, LUDWIGSBURG B 162/21067 (כרך 1); B 162/21068 (כרך 2); B 162/21069 (כרך 3); B 162/21070 (כרך 4); B 162/21071 (כרך 5); B 162/21072 (כרך 6); B 162/21073 (כרכים 7-9); B 162/21078 (כרך 10); B 162/21079 (כרך 11) copy YVA TR.10 / 3715
Zamkovaya Street in Minsk
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Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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