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Murder Story of Baranovka Jews in Dermanka

Murder Site
Dermanka
Ukraine (USSR)
Dermanka murder site, contemporary view. Photographer: 	Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
Dermanka murder site, contemporary view. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615784
The last massacre of the Jews of Baranovka – and of Jews from the nearby villages of Rogachov and Dubrovka – took place on August 20, 1943. This group of victims, which included Jewish workers and their families, had been spared during the previous shootings, since the Nazis needed them as forced laborers at the railway sleeping car factory in the village of Dermanka. On August 20, these Jews, together with non-Jewish residents of Dermanka, were forced into the village club and the factory office, and were then burned alive as part of a "punitive operation" in the aftermath of a skirmish between a Hungarian unit and a partisan force. Some sources report that 70 of the 100 victims of this burning were Jews.
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Anatoliy Strelchuk, local history researcher, writer, and editor-in-chief of the "Slovo Polesya" newspaper, related: Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2015
We are at the site of the former village of Dermanka. Both before and during the war, there was a railway sleeping car factory here. The Germans decided to restore it at all costs, and brought Jews from Baranovka to serve as a labor force. On August 19, 1943, the Chkalov partisan unit arrived in the village of Solinka, not far from here. The Hungarian troops stationed there engaged them in an asymmetrical battle. After losing nineteen people, the partisans were forced to withdraw, but they did manage to kill a number of Germans. They retreated to this very place. When the Germans came here on August 20, 1943, there was a battle, and the partisans were virtually wiped out, with only two of them remaining alive. They [the Germans] forced all the people from the village – including the Jewish workers – into the clubhouse, covered the building with straw, and burned all those people to death.… The village was burned in 1943; that means that the Jews had worked here until August 1943. As many as 70 Jews were murdered on that day. Actually, there are two killing sites: The people were burned both in the club building and at the factory office by the roadside. Three children are said to have survived the massacre, and some of them are still alive now.… The total number of people burned here was more than 100, including 7 Jewish workers from Baranovka; some of the victims were from Dubrovka, others from Rogachev, and still others from Pervomaysk. As the workers were burned together with their families, there were women and children among the victims….
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Anatoliy Strelchuk, local history researcher, writer, and editor-in-chief of the "Slovo Polesya" newspaper, related: Interview by Mikhail Tyaglyy in 2015
We are at the site of the former village of Dermanka. Both before and during the war, there was a railway sleeping car factory here. The Germans decided to restore it at all costs, and brought Jews from Baranovka to serve as a labor force. On August 19, 1943, the Chkalov partisan unit arrived in the village of Solinka, not far from here. The Hungarian troops stationed there engaged them in an asymmetrical battle. After losing nineteen people, the partisans were forced to withdraw, but they did manage to kill a number of Germans. They retreated to this very place. When the Germans came here on August 20, 1943, there was a battle, and the partisans were virtually wiped out, with only two of them remaining alive. They [the Germans] forced all the people from the village – including the Jewish workers – into the clubhouse, covered the building with straw, and burned all those people to death.… The village was burned in 1943; that means that the Jews had worked here until August 1943. As many as 70 Jews were murdered on that day. Actually, there are two killing sites: The people were burned both in the club building and at the factory office by the roadside. Three children are said to have survived the massacre, and some of them are still alive now.… The total number of people burned here was more than 100, including 7 Jewish workers from Baranovka; some of the victims were from Dubrovka, others from Rogachev, and still others from Pervomaysk. As the workers were burned together with their families, there were women and children among the victims….
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Dermanka
Murder Site
Ukraine (USSR)
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Dermanka murder site, contemporary view. Photographer: Mikhail Tyaglyy, 2015.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615784