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Murder story of Novaya Chertoriya Jews in the Novaya Chertoriya Park

Murder Site
Novaya Chertoriya
Ukraine (USSR)
Entrance to the Novo Chertoriya park, the former shooting  site. Photographer: 	Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
Entrance to the Novo Chertoriya park, the former shooting site. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
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On November 27, 1941 at 2 a.m. the Jewish population of Novaya Chertoriya village was collected and taken to the murder site located in the local park, according to some sources near the bomb shelter. There the victims were shot by policemen from Lyubary and other nearby villages. The number of the victims is estimated to have been 216. Later the victims were buried by locals. According to some testimonies one Jewish man was still alive at the time of the burial, but a policeman shot him dead on the spot.
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Olga Zhuk, who was born in 1927 in Novaya Chertoriya and lived there during the war years, testified: Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2015
My father was forced to bury the Jews. The policemen threatened him with a rifle: "Go, Arkhip, you will bury them, go or you'll get a bullet in your head". So my father went. When he came back, he said to my mother: "You know, the earth is still moving, and the police forced us to throw the earth and cover them [the Jews who had been shot] with it, in the park. My father showed me the place. Yes, I went there: later in 1955 we pastured cows a bit further from there. There was not any monument after the war, only a mound of earth. The police from Lyubar forced them [the Jews] to the pit. The policemen were all local ones. They took the Jews from their homes.
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Novaya Chertoriya
park
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Leonid Vorona was born in 1937 in Novaya Chertoriya and lived there during the war years
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