Bobry
On January 6-7, 1942, the Nazis liquidated the Mozyr ghetto. They transferred the Jews first to the town prison, where they were ordered to undress, and then in groups of 100-200 toward the neighboring village of Bobry, where large pits had already been prepared. The men were murdered immediately; the women and children were thrown alive into the pits and then covered with the bodies of the dead men. The operation, perpetrated by SS and SD soldiers together with local policemen, claimed the lives of all 1,500 inhabitants of the Mozyr ghetto.
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Gofshtein's House
On August 31 (according to another source, September 11), 1941, several old Jewish carpenters assembled at the house of carpenter Eli Gofshtein, poured kerosene on the house and burned themselves alive to escape execution at the hands of the Germans.
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Mozyr Jewish Cemetery
The beginning of the German occupation marked the start of the persecution of Mozyr’s Jews. In September 1941, German soldiers gathered approximately 200 Jews in groups of thirty to forty, took them to the Jewish cemetery on Pushkin Street, forced them to dig graves, and then killed them all. After the war, five mass graves with dozens of bodies in each were discovered in the Mozyr Jewish cemetery.
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Pripyat River near Mozyr
At the end of the autumn of 1941- beginning of 1942, Germans rounded up some one hundred Jews from Mozyr, including women and children, and took them to the Pripyat River. There they were forced to make holes in the ice, after which they were pushed into the water under the ice (according to other sources, the Germans shot them with machineguns).
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