Velikorita | Brest

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Execution of Jews in Velikorita

1 Execution site(s)

Investigated by Yahad:
2009
Memorials:
Yes
Period of occupation:
1941-1944
Witnesses interviewed:
4

Witness interview

Witnesses interviewed: 4. (N°101, 102, 103, 104). Including one eyewitness. (N°102). Ulyana Kh. (N°103): "I worked for the Gestapo! We were sent to work there, they forced us! If we hadn’t gone, all our family would have been killed. There was a prison there, where people were beaten extensively. Afterwards, they were forced to go out into the yard where they had to cut wood with saws. But how were they supposed to do this with broken hands? The dogs tore people apart, alive."

Soviet archives

RG22.022M/7021-30-20: "During the time I worked for the police, from autumn 1942 to July 1944, I know that mass executions of Soviet civilians took place, organised by the Germans and the police."

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