Testimony: “Yefresinya (born 1928) from Sirotino, remembers that policemen forced a Jew into a frozen river, with a tin box on his head. Then, they threw things at the box and terrified him. Later on, Yefrasinya saw the column of the Jews on their w...
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Testimony: “In Stolbtsy, the team found Arkady (born 1928). Some Jews working for the Todt organization hid in his house’s attic, waiting to join the partisans. Concerning the first mass shooting, he said: “I was walking past the ghetto&...
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Testimony: “Gregori (born 1924), is a Jewish survivor. He lived in Grodno with his family and was locked up with his parents and his sister successively in Ghetto 1, then in Ghetto 2, then in Ghetto 1 again before the latter was totally liquidated. ...
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Testimony: “Sometimes, the villagers were allowed to come to the ghetto to get Jewish workers who would do small jobs for them. Ielena (b. 1923) said, “My parents went from time to time to the German commisioner’s home to obtain passes i...
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Testimony: “At a market in Diatlovo, Chifra (born in 1924), a Jewish survivor from the city ghetto said that inside the ghetto, repression was very high: "I was terrorized, I would stay locked in our house in the ghetto." Once she found ou...
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Testimony: “Originally, from Liakhovitchi, Maria (born 1925) recounted that she learned to sew from a Jewish prisoner of the ghetto who had a special pass in order to teach sewing to Maria and other villagers during the occupation”. The...
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Testimony: “When (the Jews) realized that the executions had begun, they refused to be taken away. Grigori (born 1930) remembers: “The Jews shot at the Germans and set the ghetto on fire; the ones who were not burned and tried to escape were c...
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Lev Vassilevitch V Over 17 days of research, we interviewed and filmed 61 witnesses and identified 26 execution sites. Places: Region: Brest Region Towns and Villages: Velikorita, Lechnitsa, Malorita, Domatchevo, Doubok, Cherks, ...
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Testimony: The Germans took care beforehand to explain to the local population who there enemies were: the Jews. Vera K. from Tchachniki recounted seeing red papers dropped down from a plane, flying above the villages. They read: "Do not fear us. We ...
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Testimony: “In Dokchitsi, Yulia P. told us that "her family hid a dozen of Jews, one lying under the couch: he had his heart cut to pieces by a bayonet." Her two brothers who tried to intervene were killed with all the Jews". T...
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