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Murder Story of Nemirov Jews at the Fat-Boiling Facility near Nemirov

Murder Site
Nemirov Area
Ukraine (USSR)
Murder site of Jews from Nemirov, near the former fat-boiling facility. A photograph from the interview with Mikhail Mostovoi, USC Shoa Foundation Institute, copy YVA O.93/49791
Murder site of Jews from Nemirov, near the former fat-boiling facility. A photograph from the interview with Mikhail Mostovoi, USC Shoa Foundation Institute, copy YVA O.93/49791
USC Shoah Foundation Institute, University of Southern California, Copy YVA 14616918
On June 26 (May or July, according to some testimonies), 1942 inmates of the Nemirov ghetto, apparently considered by the Germans unfit for work, were collected in the building of the former synagogue, from which they were taken to a ravine near the fat-boiling facility a short distance from Nemirov, close to the place where Jews from Nemirov were murdered in November 1941, and shot to death. This massacre claimed several hundred Jewish victims. The perpetrators were probably German rural policemen and local and Lithuanian auxiliaries, who served as guards at the Nemirov labor camp.
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"The rest - men, women, and children…were shot; my mother was among them…" From the story of S. Bronshvag about the annihilation of Jews of Nemirov (Ukraine) in November 1941 and in June 1942:
... The second murder operation was carried out in Nemirov on June 26-27, 1942. All the Jews who survived the first murder operation were driven from the ghetto into the building of the Great Synagogue (during the last years before the war the building was used by a local cooperative to produce halva and surrogate coffee). There too a "selection" was carried out: the young men and women (including me) were lined up and send under guard to a concentration camp. The remaining men, women, and children were loaded onto trucks, taken to a pit behind the Polish cemetery and shot; my mother was among them….
Yitzhak Arad, ed., Destruction of the Jews of the USSR during the German Occupation, Jerusalem, 1991, p. 229 (Russian)
Nemirov Area
Fat Boiling Facility
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Murder site of Jews from Nemirov, near the former fat-boiling facility. A photograph from the interview with Mikhail Mostovoi, USC Shoa Foundation Institute, copy YVA O.93/49791
USC Shoah Foundation Institute, University of Southern California, Copy YVA 14616918