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Pedagogical College Area in Nemirov

In May 1943 the last 180 Jewish inmates of the Nemirov labor camp, which was located in the building of the former dormitory of the Nemirov pedagogical college, on the northwestern outskirts of Nemirov, were taken from the camp and shot to death near the camp, at the edge of a small lake. Neither the exact date of the massacre nor the identity of the perpetrators is known.

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Brick Factory in Nemirov

Early in the morning of November 24 (November 7, according to one report), 1941 members of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C, assisted by local auxiliary policemen, drove the Jews of Nemirov of all ages and both sexes out of their homes and took them to the former Catholic church, which during the Soviet period had been transformed into a "house of culture." They were told that they were going to be resettled. In the House of Culture the victims were robbed of their money and valuables and the skilled workers were separated from the rest of the Jews, who were taken, partly by truck and partly on foot, to the area of the brick factory on Nemirov's outskirts, in the vicinity of the former Polish cemetery. There the victims were forced to strip naked, taken to the edge of three large clay pits, which had been enlarged for the massacre, and shot dead there. According to some testimonies, the victims were not shot, but rather were electrocuted. The children were murdered separately from the adults. The total number of victims of this massacre was about 2,700. On September 14, 1942 an undetermined number of Jewish inmates of the Nemirov labor camp, primarily women, children, and elderly people, those incapable of work, were taken by truck to the same site where Jews from Nemirov were murdered in November 1941 and shot dead. The perpetrators of this massacre were probably German rural policemen and Ukrainian and Lithuanian auxiliaries, who were guarding the labor camp.

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Fat-Boiling Facility near Nemirov

On June 26 (May or July, according to some testimonies), 1942 inmates of the Nemirov ghetto, apparently considered by the Germans unfit for work, were collected in the building of the former synagogue, from which they were taken to a ravine near the fat-boiling facility a short distance from Nemirov, close to the place where Jews from Nemirov were murdered in November 1941, and shot to death. This massacre claimed several hundred Jewish victims. The perpetrators were probably German rural policemen and local and Lithuanian auxiliaries, who served as guards at the Nemirov labor camp.

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