On July 27, 1941 a military unit that was passing through Chernevtsy randomly rounded up about 10 to 15 (several dozen, according to some survivor testimonies) Jewish men, mostly elderly religious people, took them to the bridge over the Murafa River and, after abusing them, threw them into the river from a height of 10 meters. The victims who tried to swim were shot dead by rifle- or submachine-gun fire. The identity of the perpetrators is not clear. Most testimonies referred to Romanian or Hungarian soldiers (it is unknown to which unit they might have belonged) as the murderers, while some testimonies and Soviet reports indentified the perpetrators as Germans, without any indication of their military unit.

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On July 24, 1941, only three days after the start of the occupation of Chernevtsy, Wehrmacht troops took about 10 hostages from the male Jewish population of Chernevtsy. The pretext for this hostage-taking was assistance offered by the town’s Jews to Soviet prisoners of war. After being held captive for some time, the hostages were taken to the village of Moevka, just south of Chernevtsy, and shot dead, together with several dozen Soviet POWs, near the local machine-tractor station.

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