Lisiya Nora murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615609
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Murder Story of Sloboda Jews in Lisiya Nora
Murder Site
Lisiya Nora
Belorussia (USSR)
On October 6, 1941 12 Sondercommando members came to Slobodka from Kamen. With the assistance of local auxiliary police, they collected all the Jews of Sloboda in one house. First the Jewish men were taken to the forest to a place called Lisiya Nora, on the pretext that they were going to build a road. Instead, they were ordered to dig pits and then were immediately shot to death. After that, all the women and children were taken to Lisiya Nora and murdered there also. The number of victims was reported to have been 81.
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Written Testimonies
Nikolai Dobrovolsky, who was born in 1928, and his son Petr Dobrovolsky testified:
Interview by Alexander Litin in 2012
… Before the shooting the Jews lived in their huts. On the day of the shooting policemen with clubs drove people out of their homes and forced them to get into carts. There were two or three carts. The policemen took the Jews in the carts to a pit. There they shot them with automatic weapons and two machine-guns. Our people [the Jews' non-Jewish neighbors] were shaking with fear. The shootings took place around fall. There was only one German officer. He stood there watching. Meanwhile the [local] policemen were shooting their own [fellow villagers] and abusing them like SS-men.
The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem
Lisiya Nora
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Lisiya Nora murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2012.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615609