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Murder story of Raygorodok Jews at the Raygorodok Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Raygorodok
Ukraine (USSR)
In the spring of 1942 (or, according to some other sources, in July that year), a group of the surviving Jews were taken to the Jewish cemetery of Raygorodok, where they were shot. Some Soviet sources state that twenty-eight Jews were shot at that location, while others speak of two mass graves at the local Jewish cemetery, where sixty-three people were buried, as well as five smaller graves, probably at the same site, where seven Jews were buried.
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Vladimir Krenik, the former headman of the village of Raygorodok; Andrey Sirotskiy, Petr Melnichuk, and others, who had served in the Raygorodok police during the war years, testified at the Soviet juridical proceedings:
In the spring of 1942, the Gendarmerie came to the village for the second time, to arrest the remaining Jews. Twenty-eight (28) Jews were then arrested and taken to the Jewish cemetery, where they were all shot dead. Prior to that, they had been held in custody for ten days. Pits for the shooting had been dug under the command of Krenik and police chief Sovalyuk. Krenik was present at the convoying and shooting of the Jews.... In addition to that, Vladimir Krenik took part in shootings of Jews on other occasions. Thus, in 1943 he arrested the Kislers (husband and wife), the family of Moshko Shats (five persons in total), the civilian Peklis, and a boy named Leytman. He delivered them all to the rural authorities and handed them over to the Germans. All these people were subsequently shot by the Germans.
APSBU, ZHITOMIR 4245 copy YVA TR.18 / 271
Raygorodok
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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