Archive/File: holocaust/ussr/ukraine samary.001 Last-Modified: 1994/07/15 "In the area of Brest-Litovsk, which had a mixed population of Ukrainians and Poles, the gendarmerie of the German police reported that during the mass shooting of Jews in October 1942, a rumor was ciculating to the effect that the Germans would go on to shoot the Poles and the Russians, and then the Ukrainians. These rumors, said the gendarmerie, had generated sympathy for the Jews, but by November, the non-Jewish population, feeling secure again, helped eagerly in the search for hidden Jews in the woods, and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to buy old Jewish furnishings from the emptied ghetto at bargain prices. At the same time, and Ukrainians who sheltered a Jewish person exposed themselves to an acute risk. Thus a German police company in the village of Samary, Volhynia, shot an entire Ukrainian family, including a man, two women, and three children, for harboring a Jewish woman.<18>" (Hilberg, Perpetrators, 200-201) <18> The Gendarmerie-Gebietsfu"hrer in Brest-Litovsk (signed by Lieutenant of the Gendarmerie Deuerlein) to the Gendarmerie- Hauptmannschaft in Kobryn, December 5, 1942, German Federal Archives, R 94/7. The action in Samary is reported by the 9th. Company of the 15th. Police Regiment in Volhynia, November 1, 1942, Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen, Collection UdSSR 412, pp. 841-42. Work Cited Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945. New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc. 1992
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