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Murder Story of Lepel Jews at the Lepel Jewish Cemetery

Murder Site
Lepel Jewish Cemetery
Belorussia (USSR)
Jewish cemetery murder site. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2012.
Jewish cemetery murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614662
According to official Soviet documents approximately 1,000 Jews were shot to death in the Jewish cemetery located near Lepel Lake, opposite the Eastern Orthodox cemetery.
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The ChGK report from Lepel
...Close to 1,000 people, including residents of the town and the county (including a number of children) were shot to death in the cemetery of the town of Lepel on the road to Vitebsk....
GAVO, VITEBSK 2088-2-3 copy YVA M.41 / 245
Lepel Jewish Cemetery
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
54.884;28.700
Jewish cemetery murder site. Photographer: 	Alexander Litin, 2012.
Jewish cemetery murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614662