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Murder story of Krasilov Jews in the Manevtsy Forest
Murder Site
Manevtsy Area
Ukraine (USSR)
In July 1942 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen arrived in the town and on the pretext of resettling them, collected at the town square all the Jews, mainly women, children, and elderly people, who had been incarcerated in the ghetto. Then they were taken on foot to the forest near the village of Manevtsy, about 15 kilometers north of Krasilov. Upon their arrival at the site, the Jews were ordered to strip naked. The men were made to dig three large pits and then the victims were forced to lie down in groups in the pits, where they were shot to death by the German unit. After each group was shot to death, it was covered with earth by the next group. Probably shortly afterwards, a group of Jewish craftsmen and artisans from Krasilov was shot to death in a third pit located in a field next to the forest. According to one account, Soviet POWs were also shot to death at the site. Apparently during the same month, Jews from Antoniny, Bazalya, Kuzmin, and nearby towns were murdered at the site as well.
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Faina Gruber (nee Shechtman) who was born in 1918 in Kuzmin, near Krasilov, and who lived there during the war years, testified:
... and finally, I found myself in a group of people [i.e. Krasilov ghetto inmates] who were doomed to be shot, we were driven to [the village of] Manevsty, to the forest, and when the machine-guns began to rattle, I [only] lost my consciousness, I don't know how but a bullet almost hit me, and I …fell inside the pit. And apparently they [members of the German murder squad] hadn't noticed me, and I was [lying inside the pit] unconscious, therefore I don't know [what was going on at the shooting site]. When I regained the consciousness [for several minutes], so I still could hear the noise and crying [of Jewish victims], but then again I lost the consciousness, and I don't know anything what was going on [at the site]. Then, at night… the bodies [of the victims] became cold and heavy, and they… woke me up. I don't know, I don't remember how I could get out from there, but I managed to get out. No one was seen any longer, no one was heard, I stumbled…upon some torn shirt, I put this shirt on me frantically and I stood up, thinking to myself: "What should I do next?"...
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 29374 copy YVA O.93 / 29374
Manevtsy Area
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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