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Jews waiting at the shooting
site, Lubny 1941

The Jews settled in Petrovichi, in Western Russia, near the border of Russia and Belarus in the 17th century. By 1926 the Jewish population numbered 925. When the Germans occupied the town on 2 August 1941, they confined the Jews to a ghetto and ordered them to wear an identifying badge. A year later, on 22 July 1942, the Jews of Petrovichi were murdered along with the Jews from the surrounding area.