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Murder story of Kosow Poleski Jews in the Kosów Poleski Station Area

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Kosów Poleski Station Area
Poland
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Mereczowszczyzna Castle Area
In early September 1941, the Jews that had survived the large-scale murder operation near Marczewszczyzna Castle by going into hiding were found and shot in the vicinity of the road to the Kosów Poleski railway station. The number of victims is estimated at more than 200.
ChGK Soviet Reports from Kosow Poleski
Documentation of the State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Nazi War Crimes Committed in the Soviet Union, dated 1944-1945, regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in Kossovo and Ivatsevichi, 1941-1942
In early September 1942, more than 200 innocent civilians – men, women, and children – who had miraculously survived the first mass shooting in [the vicinity of] Marchevshchina [Mereczowszczyzna Castle], were shot 500 meters from the town, on the road to the Kosów railway station.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-83-19 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20001
Kosów Poleski Station Area
Murder Site
Poland
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