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Murder story of Izyaslav Jews in the Soshnoye Forest

Murder Site
Soshnoye Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
Apparently in June 1942, Ukrainian auxiliary policemen surrounded the ghetto and ordered its inmates to come out of their homes. 137 specialists – artisans and craftsmen, with their families - were allowed to remain in the town. The rest of the Jews were loaded onto trucks and taken to the forest near the village of Soshnoye, several kilometers west of the town. There they were shot to death in several large pits by a German unit and some Ukrainian policemen. In October 1942 several Jews who had managed to hide during this murder operation and who had been living in the town along with the specialists, were taken in the morning by Ukrainian policemen and shot to death at the same site. On January 1 or 2, 1943 the artisans and craftsmen who had been held in one building were surrounded by Germans and Ukrainian policemen. Those who tried to run away were shot to death on the spot. The others were taken by truck to the same site and shot to death with sub-machineguns.
Soshnoye Forest
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Semen Shider was born in Izyaslav in 1927 and was living there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 27799 copy YVA O.93 / 27799
Sofia Finkel was born in Izyaslav, Ukraine in 1927 and was living there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 33649 copy YVA O.93 / 33649