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Murder Story of Gritsev Jews in Gora
Murder Site
Gora
Ukraine (USSR)
According to one testimony, after the Germans entered Gritsev, they took 10 Jewish men hostage. After being kept imprisoned for the day, the hostages were shot to death the next morning by a German unit outside the town, near Gora village.
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Written Testimonies
Lidia (Drel) Kleyman, who was born in Gritsev in 1931 and lived in there during the war years, testified:
… They [Germans] immediately took hostage 10 men from the Jewish community. They were kept [under arrest] for the day and the [next] morning they were all shot to death near the …. village of Gora. …
YVA O.3 / 4019
Gora
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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