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Murder Story of Putivl Jews in the Putyvl Area
Murder Site
Putivl Area
Ukraine (USSR)
On November 4, 1941, the German administration announced that the Jews had to prepare for evacuation. Some 100 Jews gathered in the town center. They were led out of the town under a convoy of local policemen, and taken to a pit on the outskirts of Putivl.
In 1942, the German military sent another mobile killing squad to the town.
In their brutal anti-partisan campaign, the Germans murdered a total of about 3,300 civilians, including Jews.
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The Testimony of Vladimir Vyazmitinov
In 1941, the town of Putivl was occupied by Nazi troops.
In the first days, I was confronted with the violence of the occupiers. The neighboring Jewish families were arrested by the police and shot dead in one of the pits on the outskirts of Putivl.
Today, the execution site is marked with a column; it commemorates more than 4500 executed children, adults, and helpless elderly people....
The attempt to rescue the children from the convoy failed. The Jewish citizens of Putivl made up a fourth or a fifth of the whole population. All of them – except for those evacuated before the arrival of the Germans, and one elderly Jewish woman who was very close to our family – were shot dead.
YVA O.33 / 3482
Putivl Area
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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