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Murder Story of Bazar Jews in a Clay Pit near Korosten

Murder Site
Clay Pit near Korosten
Ukraine (USSR)
Local rural council head Bud'ko at the former clay pit murder site. Photographer: 	Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2016.
Local rural council head Bud'ko at the former clay pit murder site. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2016.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615656
In September 1941 German and local police forces arrested 176 Jews from Bazar and some Jews from the nearby villages. They forced the Jews, along with some some Soviet POWs, to march to Korosten, 60 kilometers from Bazar. The victims were shot to death at a clay pit.
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The ChGK report from Bazar
In September 1941, following the order of Bauer-Moshkovski, Grosser, and Herz, gendarmerie and police forces arrested the Jewish inhabitants, including elderly people, women, and young children - [a total of] 176 people from Bazar, 20 POWs, and 50 people from Ksaverov. They were taken under guard toward the town of Korosten, [but] on their way they were shot to the death.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-60-282 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19703
Clay Pit near Korosten
clay pit
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Local rural council head Bud'ko at the former clay pit murder site. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2016.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615656