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Murder story of Skaudvile Jews in the Griblaukiai Forest
Murder Site
Griblaukiai Forest
Lithuania
After the Jewish men had been taken away, their families – approximately 800 women, elderly people, and children, all of them residents of Skaudvilė – were taken to the train station in the village of Batakiai. On September 15, 1941, they were transported to the Griblaukiai Forest, 22 kilometers northeast of Tauragė, and exterminated almost completely. A few Jews managed to escape this massacre, and were saved by local farmers who hid them.
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The testimony of Akiva Libman, who was born in Eržvilkas:
…They took them in carts to the Batakiai [train] station. At the station, they were met by German trucks carrying SS-men. They loaded the Jews onto the trucks, took them to the Griblaukiai Forest, a few kilometers from the village (of Eržvilkas), and killed them all in that forest. At the same site, they also killed all the children and women from Upini, Skaudvilė, and Tauragė….
YVA O.71 / 10
Griblaukiai Forest
Murder Site
Lithuania
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