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Murder Story of Rogachov Jews at the Kitayshchina Tract
Murder Site
Kitayshchina Tract
Ukraine (USSR)
According to some documents the first murder operation against Rogachov's Jews, apparently the men, took place on August 19, 1941. On that day the strongest Jewish men aged from fifteen to fifty were collected on the pretext of being sent to work and taken to Kitayshchina tract in the vicinity of Ostrozhok village. There they were shot by local policemen in former silage pits, together with Jews from Ostrozhok and other nearby villages. Several dozen non-Jews were also shot at the same location on that day. The shooting was carried out by local policemen. According to later research, the total number of Jewish victims was estimated to be 89.
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Grigoriy Vaynerman, who was born in 1927 and lived in Rogachov during the war years, testified:
This lasted a month or two [sic], then they began to select the young men. They were taken to the forest and shot.
"The Horrors for the Jewish Population Began From the First Days of the Occupation," in Boris Zabarko, ed., Only We Remained Alive (Kiev, 2000), p. 79 (in Russian)
Kitayshchina Tract
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
50.416;27.716