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Murder story of Korzec Jews in the Sukhovolya Forest
Murder Site
Sukhovolya Forest
Poland
On August 8, 1941, the German authorities presented the Judenrat with a list of the names of the most prominent Jewish residents of Korzec, mostly men. They were ordered to report (apparently, at the Ukrainian auxiliary police building), ostensibly in order to be sent to work. On that day, after all the Jews had been rounded up (except for several Jewish men who were released, having been designated as indispensable workers), they were driven in trucks some 8 kilometers northeast of Korzec, toward a forest near the village of Sukhovolya (in the Zhitomir County), where they were shot by a German unit.
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Yafa (Sheindl) Dembsky, who was born in Korzec in 1930 and lived there during the war years, testified:
On August 8, 1941, the Judenrat received a list with the names of 120 Jewish men, the most distinguished and influential members of the community [of Korzec], who had to report at the building of the [apparently, Ukrainian auxiliary] police at 10 AM, ostensibly in order to be sent to work. <...>All the men arrived there on time. Except for eight of them (who were designated as indispensable workers and released immediately), they [the remaining 112 Jews] were driven in trucks toward Zviahel [Novohrad-Volynskyi], and vanished without a trace. Their relatives waited in vain for any signs of life. <...> The Judenrat, too, tried … to clarify this matter [the fate of the men], but the Germans refused to give any information. Only after the end of the war did we learn from a peasant, who had been an eyewitness to the murder, that they [the men] had been taken to a field near the village of Sukhovolya and murdered there.
I must stay alive, The Story of Sheindl, Ra'anana, 2019, pp. 39-40 (Hebrew)
Sukhovolya Forest
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Murder Site
Poland
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