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Murder story of Lokhvitsa Jews in the Goroshkovy Forest
Murder Site
Goroshkovy Forest
Ukraine (USSR)
On May 12, 1942, early in the morning, 287 Jews, including men, women, and children, were taken out of town, in a northwestern direction, to the Goroshkovy forest, where they were shot in a ravine. They were buried in a mass grave.
Related Resources
German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
German Reports from Lokhvitsa
Field commandant’s office /V/ 239
Military Administration Department
Military Administration Department monthly report of the period from May 16 to June 15, 1942 … f) the Jewish question
An operation against Jews was carried out in Lokhvitsa on May 12, 1942 ( it was not mentioned in the situation report for the previous month [although it took place then]). After this Jews are found only in rare cases in the area controlled by the field commendant's office....
TsDAVOU, KYIV KMF-8-2-157/4 copy YVA M.53 / 171
Goroshkovy Forest
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
50.359;33.271
Videos
Mikola Petrenko was born in 1925 in Lokhvitsa and lived there during the war years
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 37533 copy YVA O.93 / 37533