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Murder story of Doybany Jews in the Doybany Area
Murder Site
Doybany Area
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one testimony, on September 12 or 13, 1941, some members of the Rubinstein family, who had tried and failed to evacuate into the Soviet interior, were shot dead by Romanian troops on the outskirts of the village of Doybany. After the shooting, their bodies were covered with soil.
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The testimony of Vladimir Dicusar, who was born in 1926 in Doybany I and lived there during the war; from an interview taken by Diana Dumitru in 2007:
…That [Rubinstein] family, which had [initially] evacuated to the Bug [River], came back [to Doybany]. The Romanians seized them, shot them dead on the outskirts of the village, and buried them there. They were… Sara, Beila, Syoma, Anna, and Peisik [Rubinstein].… [The shooting took place] on September 12-13, [1941], while Syoma managed to get away.… I saw their dead bodies… [When I came to the site on the second day after the shooting], they were covered with soil, just a little bit [i.e., with a thin layer of soil].
Q: Were you able to identify them?
A: Sure, all of them…. [Several] feet were sticking out [of the pit]… Their mother had only been wounded; she walked away; she got out [of the pit]….
USHMM, RG-50.572.0067.
Doybany Area
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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