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Murder story of Rokiskis Jews in the Velniaduobe Woods
Murder Site
Velniaduobe Forest
Lithuania
On August 15-16, 1941, the Jewish men from Rokiškis were taken away from the local ghetto, located on the estate of Count Psreredecki. They were brought to a forest known as the Velniaduobe Woods, five kilometers from Rokiškis near the village of Bajorai, and shot in seven three-meter-deep pits some 400 meters from the right side of the road leading to Juodupe. Lithuanian auxiliary police, along with local nationalists under the command of Karl Jaeger, head of Einsatzkommando 3a, carried out the murder.
According to Jaeger’s report, 3,207 Jews from Rokiškis County were murdered there.
Related Resources
Written Testimonies
German Reports / Romanian Reports
Testimony of Braine Rotholc (née Kur), born in 1925 in Rokiškis:
... On August 10, 1941, the “partisans” [Lithuanian nationalists] told the Jews that they were being taken to a different place of work. They were ordered to take all their possessions (they traveled in trucks). They were brought some four kilometers from the town, behind the village of Bajorai, where all the men were shot. They had to undress first ...
YVA O.71 / 79
Velniaduobe Woods
forest
Murder Site
Lithuania
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