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Smotrich River

According to one testimony at the end of July or beginning of August 1941 a group of Jews who had been working at the printing house was ... taken in two columns (women and men separately), under guard, to the bank of the Smotrich River. A German murder squad standing on the bridge over the river shot them to death. About 20 of the Jews were shot dead; the others drowned.

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Smotrich Area

Apparently during the first days of the German occupation of Smotrich about 40 Jews (men, women, and children) were shot to death and buried in two pits located near the center of the town.

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Fat Boiling Facility near Smotrich

According to one testimony on September 1, 1941 local Jews were taken by force to a collection point, where a selection was carried out. The women, children, and elderly were taken under guard to a hill outside of town. The victims were apparently shot to death by a detachment of Einsatzgruppe C and their bodies were buried at a fat-boiling site where pits had been prepared.

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