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 two other members of the committee:

... On May 7, 1943, in the ghetto of the circuit court, a mass murder was perpetrated by the German fiends. The murder was carried out in the following way: on May 7, early in the morning, the ghetto was surrounded, and 300 of those who happened to be in sight, mostly women, were caught and brought to be shot in groups of twenty by the German bandits and their helpers. Their coffin [grave] is located in Minskaya Street, opposite the building of the courthouse of Novogrudok [Nowogrodek] town ....

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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