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Murder Story of Lipen Jews in Galeni

Murder Site
Lipen Galeni
Belorussia (USSR)
Galeni Related Communities
Lipen
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Galeni
Svisloch River Bridge in Lipen
In July-August (according to eyewitnesses) or October 1941 (according to German sources) the Germans assembled all Lipen Jews on the village square. After a public burning of Torah scrolls, all the assembled Jews were driven into a house in a place called Galeni. The house was surrounded by Germans and local policemen armed with machine-guns and sub-machine guns. After the windows and doors of the house were sealed, kerosene was poured on it and hand-grenades thrown inside. Some Jews locked in the house tried to escape the burning building but were shot down by Germans and local policemen. The number victims was about 200. The perpetrators were apparently members of Einsatzgruppe B and local auxiliary policemen
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Vladimir Kasperskii, who was born in 1934 in Lipen and lived there during the war years, testified: Interviewd by Ida Shenderovich and Alexander Litin
... I remember: once in the evening, I think it was in July, Germans with weapons, sub-machine guns and machine-guns headed toward the ghetto. Then explosions and shots were heard. People said that all the Jews had been driven into one house, the windows sealed, and then the house was blown up. Those survivors who tried to escape from the house were killed on the spot by sub-machine gun fire. One boy of my age who was wounded almost succeeded in reaching the club building, but the policeman Kapustyak caught him and killed him....
The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
Lipen Galeni
building
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Sarra Kasperskaya was born in 1915 in Kholui (Lipen) and lived there during World War II
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 44150 copy YVA O.93 / 44150
Vladimir Kasperskii who was born in 1934 in Lipen and lived there during World War II
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION, 32020 copy YVA O.93 / 32020