Categories Archives: Belarus

TESTIMONY: Vera R.”The victims had to put their clothes on a cart and were shot at the edge of a specially enlarged pit. It was mainly the police who fired. German officials arrived at the end of the shooting to inspect the work. A few months later,...

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Testimony: Anna (born in 1931) was requisitioned to fill in the grave of Jews who were killed in the town of Postavy in November 1942. There were several thousand victims. She watched the whole day of shooting and was marked for life by it. As she was fil...

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Testimony: "Kazimirovka is a tiny village, isolated in a forest clearing, at the end of a rugged road. There were some 200 houses there before the war. Only two are left today. The team quickly found Maria (born in 1936), who is certainly the last su...

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Testimony: "Daria (born in 1929) was detained for a week with thousands of other children in a school at Parichi. Then, she was sent to a camp in Germany, in a forest near the town of Falkenburg. There was a building for boys and another for girls. T...

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Testimony: Fridrikh (born in 1934) was born into a communist family of assimilated Jews. His father was a local official. His family tried to evacuate, but had to return. Policemen called at their house with a list of names and told them they had to move ...

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Testimony: "In the city of Lida, Zenon (born 1936) delivered a testimony about the payment of contributions by the Jews. It was a very common practice among Germans prior to extermination of the Jews. Zenon and his family had to move because their ho...

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Testimony: “Gregory (born 1931) is a Jewish survivor. He was rounded up with his family one morning and taken on a cart by a policeman to the ghetto of Rogachev, where he stayed for six months in dreadful conditions. The Jews who died in the ghetto ...

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Testimony: “Assia (born 1929) was a Jewish girl living in Zarechie. She was rounded up by Germans and policemen who had come to her family’s house, and they were taken to the place where all the Jews from the village were gathered. Her father ...

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Testimony: “In a small hamlet near Dribin, the Yahad team found Vassili (born 1921) who provided information about police recruitment, in which he was directly involved. One day a woman brought him a summoning order from the judge of Dribin, with no...

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TESTIMONY: “In Kokhanovo, Leonid (born 1930) lived in a house located close to the transit camp for war prisoners. It was an open air camp, on the bank of a river, surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers. Leonid engaged in secret bartering through...

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