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Murder Story of Łanowce Jews at the Łanowce Ghetto
Murder Site
Łanowce
Poland
According to one testimony, after the mass murder operation of Łanowce Jews on August 14, 1942, a group of 40 Jews was hiding in the home of a non-Jew, a peasant named Mentyuk. At some point someone informed the German authorities that Mentyuk was hiding these Jews in his home, and, as a result, the Germans caught those Jews, took them to the area of the former ghetto, and killed them there.
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Written Testimonies
From the testimony of Moshe Rozenberg who was born in Łanowce and was living there during its German occupation
… after… the [mass] murder day, there were left 40 people [Jews] that a [gentile] peasant [named] Mentyuk … hid, at enormous risk to his life…. Among them [the hidden Jews] were Yaakov Smebivar, Avraham Kerper, Haim Kerper, Michal Kerper, and other Jews…. Someone informed [the authorities] about Mentyuk, that he was hiding a number of Jew. They [apparently the Germans] came [to Mentyuk's house] and took all those who were hidden to the [aeas of the former] ghetto and killed them.…
Haim Rabin, ed., Lanovits: Book of Remembrance of the Martyrs of Lanovits who Perished in the Nazi Holocaust, 1941-1942 (Israel: Irgun 'olei Lanowce, 1970), pp. 67-68 (Hebrew).
Łanowce
Ghetto
Poland
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