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ChGK Soviet Reports
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Report of the ChGK, Nowogrodek
GARF 7021-81-102; copy YVA JM/19998
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The Yad Vashem Archives hold a vast collection of documents amassed by the
Soviet Extraordinary State Commission (ChGK).
The following reports of the ChGK from the end of 1944 contain a description of the mass murder of the Jews in Nowogrodek, prepared by the committee head Rabbi M. R. Rogatinskiy of Nowogrodek:
... On July 17, 1941, a group of eighty Jews – intelligentsia (engineers, doctors, bookkeepers, etc.) – was rounded up on the pretext of sending them to work. Brutal bandits, together with their co-workers the Belarussian policemen, murdered them next to the barracks and buried them together in one pit ....
... On July 17, 1941, a group of 180 Jewish men was taken from the settlement of Dyatlovo [Zdzieciol], Baranovichi [Baranowicze] [Nowogrodek] District. The men were deceived in the following way: the Fascist beasts, together with their comrades-in-arms, called together all the men in Dyatlovo and, on the pretext of sending them to work, brought them to Novogrodek by truck, and murdered them in one pit next the barracks. The murders were carried out by Germans, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belarussian policemen ....
... On August 18, 1941, all the Jewish men aged 14 and over were gathered together. 120 people – the higher echelons of Jewish intelligentsia and rabbis – were selected from among them with the help of German-Fascist co-workers. They were taken from Karelichi [Korelicze] to Novogrudok [Nowogrodek] by truck, as if they were going to work, where they were murdered in one pit next to the barracks. They had to dig the pit themselves ....
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