Almost the entire Jewish population of the city of Rovno, in the Ukraine, were massacred by German troops between the Fall of 1941 and the Summer of 1942, according to dispatches from Rovno appearing in the Moscow press today. The city was recaptured by the Red Army on February 5.
The first large-scale massacre of Jews occurred in October of 1941, when 12,000 men, women and children were taken to the KoreckiHighway-ostensibly to be transported to a camp – and machine gunned. The remaining Jews in the city were killed in the summer of 1942. The only ones to escape execution were those who succeeded in fleeing to partisan groups in the vicinity or who secured shelter in the homes of friendly Ukranians and Poles.
On Belya Street in Rovno, the dispatches state, are five large mass-graves. In three of them, hundreds of murdered Jews are buried. The Nazi extermination of the Jewish population was disclosed by eye-witnesses interviewed by the front-line correspondents.
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