The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR

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ChGK Soviet Reports

Report of the ChGK, Nowogrodek
GARF 7021-81-102; copy YVA JM/19998

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 and three other members of the committee:

... On July 5, 1941, 58 Jewish men were shot in the Novogrudok [Nowogrodek] town square of for being five minutes late for work. The murder was carried out in the following way: the Jews were placed into three rows and then shot by machine-gun row by row, so that those still alive could watch the death of the others and anticipate his own. The murders were perpetrated by the Fascist beasts and the Belarussian (hunting) police ....

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Lisa Reibel was born in Nowogrodek in 1930, and lived there during the war

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Lisa Reibel was born in 1930 in Nowogrodek, and lived there during the war years.

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ChGK Soviet Reports