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Murder Story of Gaysin Jews in Belendinka

Murder Site
Belendinka (Gaysin Area)
Ukraine (USSR)
On September 16, 1941 members of Police Battalion 304 brought more than 1,000 Jewish men, women and children from Gaysin to Belendinka, and shot them in pits prepared in advance.

The following day, on September 17, 1941, a further 1,000-1,500 Jews were murdered at the same place, among them 29 Jews from the nearby town of Ladyzhin.

In January 1942, the Germans brought 150 women and children to the same site and shot them.

In February 1942, on October 14, 1942 and on November 6, 1942, a number of additional mass murders were carried out. The number of victims from all these operations is over 1,000 people, among them Jews who had been evicted from nearby villages or expelled from Romanian territories.

From May 7-10, 1943, the final 120 Jews of Gaysin, among them children, were murdered at Belendinka.

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Larisa Fainberg (née Larner), who was born in 1935 in Gaysin and lived there during the war years, testified:
When World War II broke out, my parents decided to leave the town and began to pack their belongings for the journey ahead. We went to our grandparents’ house, to take them with us. Father went to look for a carriage, but was told that the Germans were already at the outskirts of the town and it was impossible to leave. We stayed with Grandmother. She hid us, and told the neighbors we had already left the town. We lived there quietly for a short time. One morning, while we were still sleeping, the Germans knocked on the door. We immediately hid. They took Grandmother and Grandfather – he was in his underwear – and we never saw them again. At the outskirts of the town, they were made to dig pits, into which they threw the dead and injured. Our parents had no choice other than to flee Gaysin – we took nothing with us and ran away.
TYKESh, CHERNIVTSY copy YVA O.33 / 4358
Belendinka (Gaysin Area)
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Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Tatiana Popik was born in 1922 in Gaysin, and lived there during the war years. (Interview in Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 26244 copy YVA O.93 / 26244
Motel Endelsman was born in 1933 in Gaysin, and lived there during the war years. (Interview in Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 42032 copy YVA O.93 / 42032