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Murder Story of Ostrog Jews at the Jewish Cemetery in Ostrog
Murder Site
Ostrog
Poland
In the days following the final massacre of the Jews of Ostróg, some 1,000 Jews, mostly women and children, were caught hiding in the intensive searches conducted by the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and the German Gendarmerie throughout the town. All the arrestees were shot dead at the Jewish cemetery of Ostróg, mostly by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen under the command of Stepan Tkachenko and his deputy, Artem Mevsha.
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Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
From the MGB (former NKVD) interrogation of Vladimir Borchakovskyi, who was born in 1915 in Ostróg and served in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police during the German occupation of the town:
…Besides, in fall 1942 – I can no longer recall the [exact] month or date – the [Ukrainian] policeman Petr Tkachenko told me personally that he, together with… [some other policeman], had shot several [sic] Jews at the Jewish cemetery [of the town] upon the orders of the commandant of [the Ukrainian auxiliary] police [i.e., Stepan Tkachenko].…
APSBU, RIVNE 7699 copy YVA TR.18 / 332.1
Ostrog
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Poland
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