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Murder story of Jurbarkas Jews in the Siline Forest

Murder Site
Siline Forest
Lithuania
At the end of September 1941, some 200 Jewish residents of Jurbarkas, the last group of survivors, were shot in the Siline Forest, one kilometer west of Jurbarkas.
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The ChGK report from Jurbarkas
Documentation of the State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK), 1944-1945 regarding the murder and persecution of Jews in the Raseiniai Region, 1941
... The third grave is located about one kilometer west of Jurburg [Jurbarkas], in the Shelutes Forest, fifteen kilometers from the road. It is rectangular, ten meters long and two meters wide. Some 200 Jews were shot in the grave. The murders were carried out at the end of September 1941, by the people mentioned above in the previous descriptions. [The shootings were carried out under the supervision of Vintsas (Vinchas) Auksukaites, a Lithuanian, in the presence of German Gestapo Head Kastek-Zhebrovsky as well as other Germans.] The murdered Jews were residents of Jurburg. The Germans had forced them to saw wood, and when they had finished, shot them ....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-94-427 copy YVA M.33 / JM/21843
Siline Forest
forest
Murder Site
Lithuania
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