Holocaust Survivor and Eyewitness Testimonies

Names of the Korets Jews Who Perished in the Holocaust

• From the JewishGen Yizkor site.

Additional Korets Holocaust Survivor Testimonies and Interviews 

• Sara Góralnik Shapiro (US Holocaust Memorial Museum Testimony)

• Fanny/Fania Wedro: The Forgotten Holocaust, The Holocaust by Bullets

• Fanny/Fania Wedro and Father Patrick Debois, author of The Holocaust by Bullets: Video 1, Video 2

• [Forthcoming] Hologram, Fanny/Fania Wedro, USC Shoah Foundation

Film about Sara Góralnik Shapiro: My Name is Sara

• The Holocaust story of Sara Góralnik Shapiro and how she survived as a child after the murder of her entire family (nearly 100 family members).

Eyewitness Testimonies of Mass Killings, 1942 (Yahad-in Unum)

• Eyewitness testimonies of local people who witnessed the killings in Korets/Kozak
  (*) Yahad-in Unum will provide access to the full video testimonials; request them directly from the Kozak page.

• See also the book, The Holocaust by Bullets, by Father Patrick Desbois, Founder of Yahad-in Unum, which details the mass killings and burial grounds of 1.5 million Jews in the former Soviet Union. 

Korets: Jewish Survivors Database as of May 16, 1945 

Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, US Holocaust Memorial Museum:

• Alphabetical list of 134 Jewish survivors in Koretz [Korets], Ukraine. 5/16/45.

• Entries include year of birth, place of birth, residence during occupation, father's name.

• Provenance: The approximately 700 names that comprise this microfilm collection of World Jewish Congress records held by the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio were identified by former Director of the Registry of Holocaust Survivors, Ms. Sarah Ogilvie. The microfilm was purchased by the Registry of Holocaust Survivors from the American Jewish Archives, and then transferred to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Collections in 1997. [Link and detailed instructions forthcoming].

• Note: Not all survivors are listed.

Stills from the film: If I Forget You, Koretz, May My Right Hand be Forgotten

Approximately 90 percent of the Jews of Korets (5,000-6,000) were killed in the Holocaust; only 10 percent (about 600-700) survived. Immediately after the war, a few Jewish survivors returned to Korets searching for their families and friends. This is a rare photograph taken of the few who returned. Bottom right: Sara Góralnik. Third from the right (top row) is Asa Shapiro (Ajzyk Szapiro).  They married soon after this photo was taken.