The Lipki Urochishche murder site
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615567
Lipki Area Related Communities
# Follow us
Languages
English
ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
RESEARCH & COLLECTIONS
COMMEMORATION
EDUCATION & E-LEARNING
MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS
RIGHTEOUS
Murder story of Sukhari Jews in the Lipki Area
Murder Site
Lipki Urochishche
Belorussia (USSR)
In the autumn of 1941, the Germans seemingly took eight Jewish men from Sukhari to Lipki Urochishche, 1.5-2 kilometers northwest of the village on the road to the village of Godnevo, and shot them in trenches dug at the time of the Soviet retreat.
During the night of February 22-23, 1942, 84 Jewish survivors, the majority women, children and the elderly, were gathered by local police on the pretext that they were being transferred to another place. The children and the elderly were taken by wagon, and the others were walked to Lipki. There they were undressed and shot into a pit, which had been prepared by local villagers. Local policemen carried out the shooting, supervised by the Germans.
Related Resources
Written Testimonies
German Reports / Romanian Reports
Ivan Gavrilovich, who was born in Sukhari in 1930, testified:
… It was winter, 1942. Policemen and Germans arrived to take the Jews, and on the pretext of moving them somewhere, told them to collect their necessary belongings. The were taken to “Koroviy Lozhok,” where they were shot. Gunfire was heard in the village. The locals executed the shooting; the Germans were only standing nearby. ...
While the teacher Solovyova was being transported to the shooting site by cart, her daughter was sitting on her knees. There were women standing along the route. Dora Moiseevna [Solovyova] asked one to take her daughter. A woman named Krasnobayeva, we called her Gurynikha, came up, hugged the girl against her and tried to run away. Just then a policeman came, grabbed the girl and threw her back in the cart. I saw it myself.
The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
Lipki Urochishche
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
53.956;30.690
Photos
The Lipki Urochishche murder site
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615567