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The Germans operated the Syrets labor education camp near Kyiv from May 1942 to October 1943. The Syrets camp was a key site of Nazi terror in occupied Soviet Ukraine. Syrets prisoners were also forcibly involved in Nazi efforts to destroy evidence of the Holocaust.
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