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Murder story of Starochudnovskaya Guta Jews at the Starochudnovskaya Guta Cemetery

Murder Site
Starochudnovskaya Guta
Ukraine (USSR)
In November 1941, a group of twenty Jews from Starochudnovskaya Guta were shot, along with five non-Jewish local residents. The shooting took place 20 meters from the local cemetery. According to some testimonies, the village headman and a local policeman took part in the shooting, and looted the Jewish victims' possessions afterward.
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Antonina Sovitskaya, who was born in 1917 in Starochudnovskaya Guta and lived there during the war years, testifies:
תעוד הוועדה הממלכתית המיוחדת לחקר פשעי הנאצים בברית המועצות, 1945-1943 על פשעים שבוצעו באזור DZERZHINSK, מחוז ZHITOMIR
I personally know, having seen it with my own eyes, that, in November 1941 (I do not remember the exact date), twenty-five residents of our village of Starochudnovskaya Guta were shot by the punitive organs near the cemetery. They were: <…> Chayka Chaimovna Ammo, Iosif Iosifovich Ammo, Chayma Srulovna Motel, Malka Srulovna Motel, Grigiriy Isaakovich Motel, Chayka [unclear] Motel, and others whose last names I do not know. The shooting of the abovementioned people was carried out with the participation of Ivan Alekseevich Mikhaylovskiy, the former headman of the Starochudnovskaya Guta village administration, who currently serves in the Red Army; Aleksey Alekseevich Mikhaylovskiy, a former policeman from the village of Starochudnovskaya Guta, who disappeared when the Germans withdrew; and Berezovskiy, the former headman of the village of Karvinovka, who left with the Germans. Furthermore, all the abovementioned traitors looted the property of the shot Jewish residents.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-60-291 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19703
The ChGK report from Starochudnovskaya Guta
תעוד הוועדה הממלכתית המיוחדת לחקר פשעי הנאצים בברית המועצות, 1945-1943 על פשעים שבוצעו באזור DZERZHINSK, מחוז ZHITOMIR
In November 1941, residents of Starochudnovskaya Guta, Dzerzhinsk County, Zhitomir District, were shot by the German punitive organs. The following people were shot at a spot 20 meters from the village cemetery: 1.Itsko Chaimovich Motel, born 1904 2.Chayka Gershevna Motel, born 1908 3.Irina Itskovna Motel, born 1930 4.Evgeniya Itskovna Motel, born 1934 5.Chava Itskovna Motel, born 1941 6.Chaim Iosifovich Motel, born 1880 7.Malika Gershkovna Motel, born 1870 <…> 18. Eizik Gershovich Kharas, born 1914 19. Chuma Chaimovna Kharas, born 1916 20. Doba Eizikovna Chara, born 1940
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-60-291 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19703
Starochudnovskaya Guta
cemetery
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
50.216;28.116