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Murder story of Vcherayshe Jews in the Vcherayshe Area
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Vcheraishe Area
Shortly after the occupation of Vcherayshe, about a dozen Jewish men were forced to dig mass graves for local Communists and Soviet activists. Upon the completion of this task, the Jewish diggers were shot, as well. According to German reports, the shooting took place in late July-mid August 1941. Although the murder site cannot be identified with any precision, the victims were apparently shot in the area of Vcherayshe.
According to some testimonies, the last few Jews who had remained alive after the two major shootings of May and July 1942 were murdered either in August-September 1943 or on October 29, 1943. Prior to the shooting, the Jews were arrested and held in the local prison. Their exact number remains unknown.
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German Reports / Romanian Reports
Basya Shkol'nik (née Kagan), who was born in 1928 in the village of Verkhovnya and lived in the Vcherayshe Ghetto during the war years, testifies:
It was on October 26, 1943. They [the policemen] took them [the eyewitness' parents] to the county center in Vcherayshe. They were held there for three days, and were the last victims to be shot. My mother was not the only one to be caught; there were also two boys, aged ten and fifteen. They [the boys] were [the grandchildren of] Rozenberg, and their names were Marik and Leva Bronshtein. They were from Kiev, and they had come to their grandfather Rozenberg for the summer, and stayed with him [after the outbreak of war]. Yankel Rozenberg [their grandfather] and his wife had already been shot by the time [of the arrest].
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