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Murder Story of Dzerzhinsk Jews at the Dzerzhinsk Airfield
Murder Site
Dzerzhinsk Airfield
Ukraine (USSR)
The Germans permitted Jews with certain professions to remain in the town. However, on December 7, 1941 another selection took place at the former recruiting office and 168 Jews, including some of the specialists and members of their families, were taken on foot or by truck to the area of the former airport near the village of Romanovka, where deep shell-holes had remained after the bombing of the area in July of 1941. The Jews were shot there.
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Written Testimonies
Anton Vasilyev, who lived in Dzerzhinsk during the war years, testified:
... After a week I went to the county police station to give food to my father, who had been arrested as a Communist. I saw a group of [Jewish] children from three to eight years old being taken from an old stable. They threw about 25 children into a truck and took them to Romanovka. The same [policeman] Sukhiy shot them….
S. Tkach, “There Can Be no Forgiveness”, cited in Garri Fel’dman ed., This Should not Be Forgotten, Zhitomir, 2000, p. 146 (in Ukrainian)
Dzerzhinsk Airfield
Airfield
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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