Some sources indicate that some of the ghetto inmates remained alive until the end of April 1943. Probably those were artisans whose services were used by the Germans. In early May 1943 those Jews were taken by truck from the town to the nearby forest. There large pits had been prepared in advance. That is where these victims were apparently shot.
Olevsk Area
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Raisa Sheikhet ( neè Vaynbrand) was born in 1930 and lived in Olevsk during the war years: