Yahad investigation: October 2010

Witnesses interviewed: 5 including 1 eyewitness of the execution (N°104) and one digger (N°107).

Execution sites identified: 1

Witness interview

Praskovia P.(N°107): Some of the Jews escaped. But most of them were shot at the peat bog. The bodies were then buried in the mass graves and covered with lime by the inhabitants of Klimovo.

Soviet archives

RG 22.002M / 7021-19 / 5 : “About 400 persons were shot. In the evening, the police forced some of the inhabitants of Klimovo to bury the bodies. The police loaded the clothes of the Jews onto carts. Two carts were loaded with these clothes.”