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TESTIMONY: Georgi: “We were coming back from the fields and saw trucks full of Jews going past. The last truck stopped nearby and we were forced to climb on. There were 4 Jewish men in the truck with us. The trucks then stopped. The Jewish were hit and ...

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TESTIMONY: Valentina – “After the departure of the Germans, we ran to the grave, we removed the soil with our hands, searching for survivors. The women lifted up the bodies and the children pulled them out of the grave. For an hour, we did everyth...

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TESTIMONY: Evgueni -“One day, while I was grazing the cows, I saw an open pit, filled with bodies of women and young girls. They had their hands tied behind their back, swollen faces and a scarf in their mouth. It was the komsomols that the Germans ...

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Testimony: In Nikolskoïe, we interviewed Viktor, born in 1931. The psychiatric hospital, Katchenko, was located in the village and employed the majority of the local population. A group of medical personnel also lived in the hospital’s enclosure. Sever...

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Testimony: The Yahad team met Valentina (born 1932). She once accompanied her aunt who had been hired to clean up the authorities's offices, who were in charge of the camp of Moglino, a small village just outside Pskov. This camp had been set up in a ...

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Testimony: The family of Antonina P.  (born 1926) had housed Jews. Antonina told us that the Germans had shot the Jewish refugees in two groups : those who were in the radio station building were shot first, the others were housed by the inhabitants ...

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Testimony: When Nikolai M. (born 1930 at Goulkevichi) went to visit a friend, little did he expect to become the witness of a well-organized execution. He recalls it all with exceptional accuracy and shared his painful recollections with the Yahad-In Unum...

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Testimony: Sacha (b. 1931) recalled the scene: “As if it were yesterday: I saw two Germans exit a metal truck. One of them went to my neighbors’ houses. The other turned a crank between the cab and the back. The first German came back with a J...

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Testimony: Lidia witnessed several mass executions in Rostov, in the Smiovska ravine. She was not yet seven years old at the time. The Germans entered her house and other houses close to the ravine, and proceeded to brutally herd the families, the childre...

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Testimony: Nina T. (born 1928) is one of three survivors of her village of Liakhovo, where the Germans killed virtually everyone. She shared those painful recollections of the mass murder of the population. She will never forget April 14, 1942. The German...

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