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Murder Story of Selidovka Jews in the Mine in Selidovka
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Mine in Selidovka
Ukraine (USSR)
On June 6, 1942, the Gorbatenko family from the village of Aleksandrovka (in the Selidovka County) was arrested because of the Jewish origin of the wife, and taken to the Gendarmerie station in the village of Selidovka. A short while later, the non-Jewish husband was released, while his Jewish wife and their three sons remained in custody. On June 19, 1942, they were thrown down a mine shaft in Selidovka, where numerous non-Jews were also murdered on various dates.
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Grigoriy Gorbatenko, who was born in 1901 and lived in the village of Aleksandrovka during the war years, testifies:
On June 6, 1942, I, Gorbatenko, my wife Riva Naumovna Gorbatenko, and our three sons – Nikolay, Victor, and Mikhail – were arrested in the village of Aleksandrovka. The policemen sent all of us to the Gendarmerie station in Selidovka. A week later, I was released from custody, but my wife and sons were thrown into a mine in Selidovka on June 19, 1942. In this way, the German authorities and their collaborators liquidated my family, because my wife was Jewish.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-72-17 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19977; JM/19978
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