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Murder Story of Horodec Jews in the Horodec Barn
Murder Site
Barn in Horodec
Poland
About two dozen skilled Jewish workers were spared during the liquidation of the ghetto on July 26, 1942. According to some sources, 15 of them remained in Horodec to work, and were later shot in a barn. By contrast, Soviet documents speak of 25 Jews being shot around that time.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
David Voliniets, who was born in Horodec in 1918, and visited the town after the war, related:
Then [after the murder operation in the vicinity of Bronna Góra] they selected some craftsmen and forced them to work. Among them were my uncle Shamay Rabinsky, Sender London, Chaim Voliniets (the grandson of Alter the Levite), Chaim Koval, and some others (about 15 men in total). Some of them worked in Horodec, and some in Kobryn. Shortly afterward, those who worked in Horodec were assembled in Shamay's barn and killed there....
From A. Ben-Ezra, ed., Horodec: History of a village (1142-1942) (New York, 1949), p.193 (Yiddish)
Barn in Horodec
Murder Site
Poland
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