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Shepetovka

Ukraine (USSR)

Jews are mentioned as living in Shepetovka in the 18th century. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries Shepetovka was a Hasidic center, particularly in the time of Rabbi Pinhas Shapiro of Korets (1726-1791). In 1897 its 3,880 Jews comprised approximately 48 percent of the total population. In the spring of 1919, during the pogroms of the Russian civil war (1918-1920), 6 Jews were killed and several other injured by the Ukrainian army of Symon Petliura. Under Soviet rule a number of Jews in the town continued to work in their professions as artisans while others formed trade cooperatives or worked at...

Murder Story of Shepetovka Jews at the Shepetovka Synagogue

Murder Site

Shepetovka

Ukraine (USSR)

According to the testimony of O. Stetsyuk, a Ukrainian doctor who took care of the ghetto inmates of Shepetovka, Gendarmerie men used to come daily to the ghetto, randomly select several children and old people and shoot them to death at the square near the synagogue. The bodies of the victims were buried at the site.

Shepetovka - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

Commemoration

After the war the Jews who returned to Shepetovka tried to obtain permission from the local authorities to fence off the murder site of the Jews from Shepetovka, Sudilkov, and the surrounding area and to erect a monument at the site. Since there was no response on the part of the authorities, the Jews themselves collected money, fenced off the site, and erected a monument that indicated that Soviet civilians were murdered at the site. Apparently after the Soviet era, in independent Ukraine, at the site was erected a monument in a shape of a lit menorah, a symbol of the Jewish people, thus clearly indicating the...

Murder story of Shepetovka Jews in the Tsvetukha Forest

Murder Site

Tsvetokha Area

Ukraine (USSR)

On July 27, 1941 the Jews of Shepetovka were ordered by the commandant of the town to appear the next day at the town's square near the local clinic. On July 28 the Jews who had been collected at the square were surrounded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and a selection was carried out. The artisans and craftsmen, along with their families, as well as some other Jews, were allowed to return to their homes. On the pretext of their being taken to work or being relocated a large group of young men and women (and apparently some teenagers) were loaded onto trucks and, under the guard of Ukrainian policemen and...

Sudilkov - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

Commemoration

After the war Faina Ostrovskaya, a Holocaust survivor, funded the erection of a memorial stone near the house into which the bodies of the Jews murdered in January 1942 were thrown. The plaque on the stone lists in Yiddish the names of some of the victims: Khaim Maister, Zvi Mendel, Zeev Milman, Tardas, the shoichet (ritual slaughterer), Shalom Yosef Yoavin, Leizer Lemberg, Shimon Shneider and his wife. The remaining Jews of the town used to gather annually to recite a memorial prayer at the site. During the post-war period the remaining Jews from Shepetovka and its surroundings tried to...

Murder Story of Sudilkov Jews in the House Cellar in Sudilkov

Murder Site

Sudikov

Ukraine (USSR)

In January 1942, according to one testimony, during the transfer of the Jews of Sudilkov to the ghetto of the nearby town of Shepetovka, a group of about 20 old Jewish men and women, was shot to death on the spot in Sudilkov and their bodies were thrown into the cellar of a former Jewish house there.

Murder Story of Annopol Jews at the Annopol Clinic

Murder Site

Clinic in Annopol

Ukraine (USSR)

According to one testimony, in 1942 a group of Jews – mostly artisans and able-bodied men, who had been kept alive in Annopol for work – were transported to the ghettos of Slavuta and Shepetovka. The trucks were not large enough to accommodate all the deportees, and the Jews left over after the deportation were shot dead near the local clinic.

Sudilkov

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Sudilkov

Ukraine (USSR)

Jews settled in Sudilkov in the 17th century. In 1705-1706 they suffered from attacks by Cossacks. In 1798 a Jewish printing house was established in the town. Sudilkov had a long tradition of manufacturing tallesim (Jewish prayer shawls). In 1897 the Jewish population of Sudilkov was 2,713, comprising 48.9 percent of the total population. Pogroms were carried out against the Jews in 1917 and 1919. Under Soviet rule in the 1920s a cooperative that was officially given permission to produce textiles in fact produced tallesim. In 1930 a Jewish kolkhoz was founded near the town, and during the 1920s and...

Murder Story of Slavuta Jews at the Water Tower in the Slavuta POW camp

Murder Site

Water Tower in Slavuta

Ukraine (USSR)

On the morning of June 25 or 26, 1942 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen drove the inmates of the ghetto, mainly women, children, and elderly people out of their homes and loaded them onto several trucks. Then, guarded by Ukrainian policemen and Gendarmerie men, the Jews were taken to the water tower in the Slavuta POW camp, where several pits had been prepared. Upon their arrival they were ordered to get off the trucks and to strip naked. Those who refused to undress were beaten and their clothes were ripped off. The victims were ordered to enter the pit in groups of three and to lie face down, and then were shot to...

Murder story of Polonnoye Jews in the Polonnoye Forest

Murder Site

Polonnoye Forest

Ukraine (USSR)

On the morning of September 2, 1941 1,275 Jews of the town, including many women and children, were loaded onto trucks and taken deep into the forest near the Polonnoye train station, located three kilometers from the town. When they arrived the site was surrounded by Ukrainian policemen and the Jews were made to strip naked, taken to the edge of the pit, and then shot to death, apparently by members of the 45th Reserve Order Police Battalion that had been brought from Shepetovka.

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