Bronislava Boginska, Sobolevka resident, showing the shooting site. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615659
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Murder story of Sobolevka Jews in the Sobolevka Area
Murder Site
Sobolevka Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In late August 1941 the Jewish residents of Sobolevka, as well as several Jews from the town of Makhlevsk (Dovbysh) were collected, according to some testimonies, in an office located near the rural council premises. The collection procedure lasted for three days. Some of the Jews were shot on the streets of the village, but the majority of them were taken outside of Sobolevka. There, in an area located one kilometer away in the direction of Vily village, the Jews were forced to dig pits and were shot in them. The shooting was carried out by the German gendarmerie and local policemen. Among the victims were men, women, and children.
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Written Testimonies
Written Accounts
ChGK Soviet Reports
Mechislav Tereshuk, who was born in 1926 in Sobolevka and lived there during the war years, testified:
Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2012
There were thirty four people shot. All of those who were shot were from Sobolevka; three-four people were from Dovbysh [between 1935 and 1945 Shchorsk]. They escaped from Dovbysh to their relatives. And some of them were shot beyond the village. They threw them into a pit and did not cover it over.… I know this because after the war was over a registration procedure was conducted and people said so…. Some of them were shot in the village… next to the high fence where Chaim Bergil used to live. They were forced into the office next to the rural council building.… One woman tried to escape and hid in the ditch…. Then two truck arrived, there were three Germans there…. There were about seventy men -they were policemen.
YVA O.101 / 613
Sobolevka Area
road
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Photos
Bronislava Boginska, Sobolevka resident, showing the shooting site. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615659