Klewań Forest Related Communities
Klewań Related Murder Sites
# Follow us
Languages
English
ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
RESEARCH & COLLECTIONS
COMMEMORATION
EDUCATION & E-LEARNING
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS
RIGHTEOUS
Murder story of Klewań Jews in the Klewań Forest
Murder Site
Klewań
Poland
On May 13 or 15, 1942, the German chief of the Gendarmerie, Fischer, ordered the Judenrat to have all the Jews assemble at the station on the next day. Very few Jews obeyed this order, so the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police immediately began to search for hidden Jews. They managed to find most of them. The Germans and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen then shot all the Jewish arrestees (who seem to have numbered about 600) in the forest approximately 1 km from Klewań. This mass shooting was organized by members of the German Security Police from Równe, with the assistance of the Gendarmerie and the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the testimony of Avraham Kirschner, who was born in Klewań in 1920:
…During the second pogrom in Klewań, some 1,500 people were annihilated. They, too, were Jews, and their graves [are located] in Klewań N. 2. Another group of about 100 are buried in Klewan N. 1…. It began on May 15, 1942, with the involvement of the Chief German SS commandant [i.e., the chief of the Gendarmerie], Fischer…. There were [also] representatives of the Gestapo from Równe….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-71-51 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19975
Klewań
forest
Murder Site
Poland
50.747;25.955