Lysaya Gora murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615633
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Murder Story of Chechersk Jews in Lysaya Gora near Chechersk
Murder Site
Lysaya Gora
Belorussia (USSR)
At the end of November 1941 a group of Jews (apparently consisting of people considered unfit for work) was taken to anti-tank trenches at Lysaya Gora, near the Kovpin River, and shot to death there. A second murder operation was carried out on December 28 1941. Then all the Jews remaining in the ghetto were taken to Lysaya Gora and shot to death by the Germans and local collaborators. Almost 500 Jews were killed in the two murder operations.
Related Resources
ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Chechersk
At 2 p.m. on December 28, 1941 the Germans forced all the Jews and the Gypsies outside. The temperature was minus 30 degrees. The people were lined up and taken under heavy guard by Germans and local policemen to an anti-tank trench outside of town. Many of them [the victims] had no suitble clothes. Next to the trench the unfortunates were forced to undress and then were shot in the back of the head. 432 Soviet civilians were murdered on that day.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-85-44 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20006
Lysaya Gora
mountain
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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Photos
Lysaya Gora murder site. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2010.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14615633