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Execution of Jews in Osveya

2 Killing site(s)

Investigated by Yahad:
2008
Memorials:
Yes
Period of occupation:
1941-1944
Witnesses interviewed:
2

Witness interview

Witnesses interviewed: 2. (N°28, 29). Matrena Mikhailovna A. (N°29): "The Jews were taken from Ostrino to the river in wagons . The Germans assembled the Jews from several different villages in the central square. There were men, women and children."

Soviet archives

RG-22.002M/7021-92/218. "At the beginning of March 1942, the German troops began to shoot and exterminate Soviet civilians en masse. 650 Jews were shot and buried in the park of Osveya."

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