Smolyarka | Brest

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Execution of Jews in Smolyarka

1 Killing site(s)

Investigated by Yahad:
2009
Memorials:
No
Period of occupation:
1941-1944
Witnesses interviewed:
1

Witness interview

Witnesses interviewed: 1. (N°141). Yevgueni Ivanovich G. (N°141): "20 police officers disguised as partisans came to the starost of the village. He told them that he was anti-German. They shot him and all of his family just 500m away. There were seven of them. After this, they forced the neighbors to dig a grave for this family."

Soviet archives

RG-22.002M/7021-87/2. "The mass execution at Smolyarka took place in October 1942 and, according to witnesses, more than 1000 people were shot."

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