Ladiva Vilshina murder site, contemporary view. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
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Murder story of Lyubar Jews in the Ladiva Vilshina Grove
Murder Site
Ladiva Vilshina Grove
Ukraine (USSR)
On August 9, 1941 between 100 and 300 Jews (according to some sources mostly men), together with "Soviet activists," were taken to an area beyond Yurovka village, to the Ladiva Vilshina grove. They were shot and their bodies were thrown into pits, which according to some sources they had been forced to dig.
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From the testimony of Yefim Zakharov- Zaydenberg, who was born in Lyubar in 1927 and lived there during the war years:
...On Saturday morning August 9, [1941] about 300 men who had previously been taken to perform forced labor were collected. They were taken beyond the village of Yurovka, to the edge of the Ladova Vilshina grove. They were forced to dig some pits there. At the end of the day they were all shot to death and thrown into those pits. My father Meyer Itskovich Zaydenberg was among them....
Iosif Shaykin, ed., And You Shall Tell Your Children. Memoirs of Kiev Residents Who Were Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev, 1998 p. 116 (Russian).
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Anna (Buzya ) Kiianovskaya (née Smayger) was born in 1924 in Lyubar and lived there during the war years
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