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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-ukraine-forest-terrible-events-of-75-years-ago-given-resonance-by-handful-of-survivors/

Commemorating the Nazis' Murder of Jews in Ukraine

(Times of Israel) Sue Surkes - In a forest clearing outside the city of Uman, Ukraine, 70 Christians and Jews gathered Monday to unveil a memorial to 1,000 Jewish children murdered by the Nazis in April 1942. The memorial was funded by Christians for Israel, a Dutch-based organization. School principal Ludmilla Dozenko described how in August 1941, the Nazis took a group of Jews from the nearby village of Talnoy to a forest nearby to be gunned down. One woman was with her two-year-old girl. The wife of a local policeman happened to walk by and pulled out the girl from the pile of bodies at night and got her to a safe house with a Ukrainian family. Then Dozenko pointed to an elderly woman: "That two-year-old - Nina Levenberg - survived, and is with us today." In September 1941, 1,000 Jews were herded into a vast basement in Uman before the doors were locked and a car exhaust was shoved through a hole in the wall. Just one person survived - a small boy, Yevgeny Emass - who had managed to breathe oxygen by pressing his nose against a crack in the wall and to escape without being noticed when the Germans opened the doors. He, too, was at the ceremony.

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