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Zhitomir
was a district capital in the Soviet Ukraine. When the Germans
occupied the town on July 9, 1941, they found 10,000 Jews there. In
July and August of 1941, nearly 5,000 Jews were murdered in groups
under various pretexts, and the remaining 5,000 were ghettoized.
Early in the morning of September 19, the ghetto was surrounded by
German and Ukrainian police. The 5,000 Jews in the ghetto were led
to pits and murdered. |
