Latest reports reaching here today from the liberated city of Pinsk disclose that only six Jews are now living in that city which once boasted a large Jewish population.
The six Jews lived for twenty months in a basement hidden by two local Russian women Elizabeth Baranovskaya and Sofia Fedorchenko. Two German officers responsible for the murder of most of Pinsk Jews have fallen into the hands of the Red Army.
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