Molodezhnaya Street murder site in Jody, contemporary view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2015.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614664
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Murder Story of Jody Jews on Molodezhnaya Street in Jody
Murder Site
Molodezhnaya Street in Jody
Poland
On December 15, 1941 the Germans mobilized some local farmers to dig pits on the outskirts of the town. This was noticed by the Jews and dozens of young Jews and Jewish families fled to the forest, or constructed bunkers to hide, or sought temporary refuge with local farmers. Two days later reinforcements of Lithuanian policemen were brought to Jody from Brasław and Miory. Approximately 530 Jews from Jody and nearby villages were concentrated in the town market and from there taken in groups to the pits and shot to death with machine-guns. Before the execution some Jews with skills needed by the Germans were separated from the others and sent to the ghetto of Głębokie.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Zinaida Jablonska, who was born in 1912 in Jody and lived there during the war years, testified:
... At the end of October 1941 Germans soldiers, gendarmes, and policemen arrived in Jody. Upon their arrival, they collected all the Jews of Jody in a school building... Afterwards, the Jews were taken to pits near the town. There the Jews were forced to take off their clothes and were shot to death. The victims' bodies were not covered for about a month. When it became difficult to breathe in the town due to the decomposition of the bodies, the Germans ordered the pits to be covered over....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-92-224 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20022
Molodezhnaya Street in Jody
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Murder Site
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Molodezhnaya Street murder site in Jody, contemporary view. Photographer: Alexander Litin, 2015.
YVA, Photo Collection, 14614664