Murder site of 56 Esmony Jews. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2008.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615487
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Murder Story of Esmony Jews in Krasnaya Lipa
Murder Site
Krasnaya Lipa
Belorussia (USSR)
In the fall (on October 9, according to German reports) of 1941 Germans from Einsatzkommando 8 B and local policemen assembled 56 (81, according to German sources) Jews, supposedly to repair the road leading to Zaozerye. The assembled Jews of both sexes and of various ages who were carrying work tools were lined up in a column and taken to the Krasnaya Lipa nature reserve, two kilometers from Pupsa (Maysk) village near the Esmony-Karmanovka road. There they were all shot.
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Written Accounts
German Reports / Romanian Reports
Tatyana Shestak, history teacher in Esmony, related:
Interviewed by Ida Shenderovich and Alexander Litin
... The next bloody massacre of Esmony Jews took place in the fall of 1941. The Germans assembled 56 people [ostensibly] to repair the road to Zaozerye. According to N.P. Ustinovich's account, they were all carrying spades or shovels. The column was accompanied by guards with dogs. The next day they were all shot at the Krasnaya Lipa nature reserve. Inhabitants of Maysk buried the bodies of these innocent victims of fascist genocide....
Archive of the Initiative "The Lessons of the Holocaust", Mogilev
Krasnaya Lipa
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Murder site of 56 Esmony Jews. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2008.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615487