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Yekhiel-Yankel Chmielnicki

יחיאל־יאנקל כמיעלניצקי

Identified as the last Jew of the town and murdered at the end of 1944.

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... אין דער רעלאציע פון כמיעלניקער שטאטראט װעגן אומקום פון דער שטאט, װערט אנגעגעבן, אז דער לעצםער ײד, יחיאל־יאנקל כמיעלניצקי׳ איז אומגעבראכט געװארן דורך שאיע פאםטאק. עם וױיזט זיך אבער ארוים, אז פאםטאק אלײן איז אומגעקומען נאך אין יאר 1942, בעת כמיעלניצקי איז אומגעבראכט געװארן םוף 1944. ...
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Murder of Yekhiel-Yankel Chmielnicki
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Shaye Postak
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Chmielnik
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Murder · 1944
Murder of Yekhiel-Yankel Chmielnicki

Yekhiel-Yankel Chmielnicki was murdered at the end of 1944; the passage notes that the reported alleged perpetrator had died in 1942.