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Murder Story of Kobryn Jews in Imienin
Murder Site
Imenin
Poland
During the second murder operation, some 180-200 Jews from Kobryń who were deemed incapable of work (because of old age or physical or mental illness) were assembled, together with some of their family members, in the local school building. From there, they were transported in trucks to a site 5 kilometers from Kobryń, near the village of Imienin, where they were shot by a Gestapo unit. While Soviet documents date this operation to August 1941, some other testimonies indicate that the shooting took place after the creation of the ghetto, emphasizing the fact that the Judenrat had supplied the Germans with lists of those unable to work.
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Written Testimonies
ChGK Soviet Reports
Georgi (Gedalya) Bil, who was born in 1925 in Kobryń and lived there during the war years, testifies:
After the ghetto had been established, the German civil authorities, possibly together with the SS, asked [the Judenrat] once again for 200 people to be shot. They said: Give us the sick and the very old ones. We knew that they were taking them to be shot. What other purpose could this action serve? They took them [the victims] five kilometers from the town and shot them there, we knew that. The Judenrat had drawn up the lists. They took the most infirm ones, 200 people in total.
YVA O.3 / 11412
Imenin
Murder Site
Poland
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