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Murder Story of Kolyshki Jews in the Adamenki Ravine

Murder Site
Adamenki Area
Belorussia (USSR)
When reaching Liozno the Kolyshki Jews were locked in barn and kept there for a day or three, according to various sources. About 20 of them died from cold during the night. Then they were brought by trucks to the shooting site in the Adamenki ravine located at the outskirts of Liozno near the Moshna River bank. There, according to some testimonies, they were forced to undress naked and shot in the ravine. Among the victims were women, children and old people.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports from Kolyshki
State Extraordinary Commission for Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in the Soviet Union (ChGK) documentation dated 1943-1945, regarding crimes carried out in the vicinity of Liozno, in the Vitebsk Region, Belorussia
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GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-84-8 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20003; JM/20004
Adamenki Area
ravine
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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