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Murder Story of Vedmezhye Jews on the Road to Kreshchatik
Murder Site
Road to Chreshatik
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 27, 1941, German and Ukrainian policemen came to the village of Vedmezhye and arrested three local Jews and ten Jewish evacuees. The Germans and local policemen took the Jews in the direction of the Kreshchatik farm.
The policemen stopped the group of Jews at an anti-tank trench and shot them dead.
Later, on November 11, 1941, the local and German policemen arrested three Jewish girls aged 17-18, who had been evacuated from Chernigov, and had managed to hide during the September massacre. The policemen raped the girls and shot them dead at the anti-tank trench near the road to Kreshchatik.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Vedmezhye
The first victims of the German-fascist brutality were shot on September 27, 1941. These were Jews who lived in the village of Vedmezhye. They were the Hlebner family – Boris Ilyakovich Hlebner (aged fifty), his wife Olga Ilkovna (aged forty-three), and their son Ilko Borisovich (aged twenty) – and ten Jewish evacuees from the city of Chernigov, whose names could not be determined by questioning the locals.
The executions took place in the trenches next to the hills on the road to the Chreshchatik farm.
On November 11, 1941, three young Jewish girls aged 17-18 were shot dead. They had come from Chernigov, and their fathers and mothers had been executed on September 27.
Before being shot, the girls were raped by the Germans and the policemen.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-74-483 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19984
Road to Chreshatik
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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