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Murder story of Bratslav Jews in the Grinenki Forest

Murder Site
Grinenki Area
Ukraine (USSR)
Apparently in the second half of 1942, about 10 or 18, according to various survivors' testimonies, or 6, according to German documents, young Jewish inmates of one of Bratslav's labor camps, mainly deportees from Bessarabia and Bukovina who had either tried to escape or engaged in resistance activities were murdered in the forest near the village of Grinenki, south of Bratslav.
Grinenki Area
forest
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
48.821;28.949
Evgeniia Tsirulnikova, was born in Bratslav in 1927 and lived there during the war years (interview in Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 31784 copy YVA O.93 / 31784
Evgeniia Spektor was born in Bratslav in 1934 and lived there through the war years (interview in Russian)
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 30029 copy YVA O.93 / 30029