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Murder Story of Slutsk Jews in Bezverkhovichi (Gas Vans)

Murder Site
Bezverkhovichi (Gas Vans)
Belorussia (USSR)
In the course of the spring of 1942 the inmates of the so-called "field ghetto" of Slutsk were taken to the forest near the village of Bezverkhovichi about 10 kilometers west of Slutsk. According to survivors, on Mondays and Saturdays 2 to 4 trucks took the victims to the execution site, where they were shot or murdered in gas vans. The last Jews of the "field ghetto were murdered on Passover (April 2/3) 1942. The total number of Jews murdered at Bezverkhovichi is estimated to have been between 3,000 and 4,000.
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From a letter from Sulkovski, a former neighbor in Slutsk, to Efim Temchin, August 29, 1944:
... They soon began to shoot the people in the field ghetto - usually on Mondays and Saturdays. Two, three, or four trucks would take the people away to the vicinity of Bezverkhovichi, in the forest. Pinkhos managed to become a worker, and he avoided the first group of those sentenced to be shot ....
Ehrenburg, Ilya and Grossman, Wassili. The black book : the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1981, p. 248.
From a letter of Manya (Maria) Temchina from Slutsk to her brother Efim, a pilot in the Red Army, October 28, 1944:
... Then they began to take people away to shoot them. We were on the brink of doom seven times, but somehow we survived and were not put on the trucks. The paralyzed Simon Strugach was [also] in the ghetto and he was carried to a truck. Many people whom we knew died then. Leizer writes that no one survived except the partisans. On Passover 1942 the ghetto was destroyed and only the workers were left....
Ehrenburg, Ilya and Grossman, Wassili. The black book : the ruthless murder of Jews by German-Fascist invaders throughout the temporarily-occupied regions of the Soviet Union and in the death camps of Poland during the war of 1941-1945 . New York : Holocaust Library, 1981, p. 250.
Bezverkhovichi (Gas Vans)
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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