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Murder Story of Lapichi Jews at the Former Military Camp in the Lapichi Area
Murder Site
Lapichi
Belorussia (USSR)
In March (according to another source, April) 1942 a German killing unit, together with local policemen, rounded up all the rest of the Jews of the village (women, children, and elderly) and took them to the former military camp, where they were shot to death.
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Written Testimonies
From the testimony of Inna Voinova, who lived in Lapichi since 1937:
.... However, the women and children survived until April 1942. In April (I don’t recall the exact date) a killing unit from Osipovichi arrived and policemen and the Germans surrounded the village, collected all the women, children, and elderly and shot them on the same day.
Inna Voinovich, "About the death of relatives of the poet Moisei Kulbak," Evreiskii kamerton, December 5, 1997 (Russian)
Information provided by the eye-witness L.:
... The second shooting took place on March 12, 1942. Approximately 800 [mostly Jewish] women and children were killed. Among them there were several Russians, apparently families of officers from the military garrison located 4 kilometers from Lapichi along the railway line. The shooting took place in the area of the garrison: its perpetrators were Germans and policemen.
YVA O.3 / 4737
Lapichi
former military base
Murder Site
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