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Murder story of Koryukovka Jews in the Koryukovka Ravine
Murder Site
Koryukovka Ravine
Ukraine (USSR)
In January and February 1942 300 people, including at least 130 Jews, were shot by Germans in the Koryukovka ravine, in the forest near the town of Koryukovka.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports from Koryukovka
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181. Motey Moiseevich Vilenskiy, age 35, Jewish, state employee
182. Vilenskiy, age 4, Jewish, a dependent
183. Vilenskiy, age 3, Jewish, a dependent [those are 3 out of several Jewish names on the list] …
were shot by the Gestapo in 1942....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-14 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19994
Mariya Nakaznaya, who was born in 1894, testified:
… The atrocities started from the time that the German administration was established. Each day 10-20 people or more were arrested and shot in the Koryukovka ravine close to the forest. About 1,000 civilians were shot there….
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-14 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19994
Tatiana Kopishko, born in 1889, testified:
… From 1942 until 1943 the Germans robbed civilians, searched houses for weapons, took everything they could, and arrested several people, imprisoning them and shooting them later in different places in the ravine, [mainly] at the kolkhoz pig sty near the forest
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-78-14 copy YVA M.33 / JM/19994
Koryukovka Ravine
ravine
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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