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Murder story of Luginy Jews at the Oil Factory in Luginy

Murder Site
Luginy
Ukraine (USSR)
On August 29, 1941, a group of Jews from Luginy were shot at a pit behind the Luginy hospital, fifty meters from the road, across from the local oil factory. According to Soviet sources, fifty-one Jews were shot on that day, along with fifteen POWs.
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Aleksandra Kovalchuk, who was born in 1897 and was a member of a partisan unit, testifies:
Documentation of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union from 1943-1945 regarding crimes committed in the area of Luginy in the Zhitomir district
Prokop Gavrilyuk, who served as a policeman in the Gendarmerie of Luginy…, also took part in the shooting of the Jewish population near the oil factory, behind the school near the kolkhoz.… The shooting of the Jewish population, the Soviet servicemen, and the innocent Soviet civilians was organized and carried out by the chief of the Luginy Gendarmerie post, Willie Shultz, a German who was born in 1914.… I have learned that Garasyuk, who worked at the forestry during the occupation, and the other policemen personally dragged in the machine gun that was used in the shooting of fifteen Soviet servicemen and fifty-one persons of Jewish ethnicity near the oil factory.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-60-301 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19705
The ChGK report from Luginy
Documentation of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union from 1943-1945 regarding crimes committed in the area of Luginy in the Zhitomir district
...This is to certify the exhumation of a pit in which fifty-one [sic] peaceful Soviet civilians of Jewish origin [population] and fifteen Soviet servicemen were shot and buried by the German-Fascist occupiers on August 29, 1941. The exhumation has revealed the following: These victims were shot in a pit sized 7 X 8 meters; the pit had been dug as part of the operations of the Luginy brick factory, and it is located behind the Luginy hospital, across from the oil factory, fifty meters from the road.… One body has been identified by eyewitnesses as that of Ana Nayvelt (born 1921). According to eyewitness testimonies, her brother David (born 1924), her mother Yevgenia, and her father were also buried there, along with the Shkolnik and Leyfman families (a total of ten people from the two families).
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-60-301 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19705
Luginy
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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