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Esmony Related Murder Sites
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Murder Story of Esmony Jews on the Aleshkovichi Forest Road
Murder Site
Aleshkovichi Forest Road
Belorussia (USSR)
At the end of July 1941 30 men, 26 of them Jews from Esmony, were taken to work in the forest. The men had to remain in the forest both day and night. When one Jewish man, Meer Levin, died, the workers protested. The men demanded to be sent home. On the evening of July 29, 1941 Germans shot them all, on the old forest road leading to the village of Aleshkovichi, and burned their bodies.
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Written Accounts
Tatyana Shestak, a history teacher, related:
Interviewed by Ida Shenderovich and Alexander Litin
... A week later the fascists once again entered Esmony. The strongest adult males were taken for work in the forest. Among the 30 workers 26 were members of local Jewish families. They took the timber, [and] piled it up so that it could be transported to Germany. The forced laborers spent the nights [as well as days] in the forest, in a shack. And when, during the third week, Meer Levin was killed in an accident, all [the workers] started to protest, demanding to be sent home. On the evening of July 29 the fascists shot them all on the old forest road that led to Aleshkovichi. The bodies were covered with spruce branches and set on fire....
Archive of the Initiative "The Lessons of the Holocaust," Mogilev
Aleshkovichi Forest Road
forest
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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