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Murder story of Werenów Jews at the Werenów Railway Station
Murder Site
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Poland
The Germans carried out the first large-scale anti-Jewish operation in Werenów in the first half of November 1941. That month, the Germans arrested the Jewish refugees from Vilna who had fled to Werenów at the peak of the mass shootings of Jews in that city. Apparently, there were more than 500 Jews from Vilna hiding in Werenów, and the German police managed to catch 288 of them. They were held in the building of the movie theater for seven days, being abused and tortured by their captors. On November 14, they were shot near the Werenów railway station by Lithuanian auxiliary policemen.
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The ChGK report from Werenów
… On November 14, the Germans and their accomplices carried out a shooting of the Jewish population that had been brought from Vilna. The victims were escorted to the murder site in batches of 20, with the women and children being separated from the men. Each group was shot on top of the bodies of the previous batch. Children were shot before their mothers' eyes, to render the scene [of the massacre] more tragic to the population. Those who were wounded and merely half-dead were covered with soil....
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-86-38 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20008
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Murder Site
Poland
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