Murder Story of Raduń Jews on the Road to Bastuny

In the first days of 1942, Rudolf Werner, a German assistant to the Lida Gebietskommissar, arrived in Raduń. With the aid of the police, he conducted a house-to-house search for Jews from Lida and other localities who were living in the ghetto without official residence permits. Werner and his assistants uncovered about 40 Jewish refugees, who were then marched out of the town to the northeast, along the road to the village of Bastuny. They were then killed, and buried in the forest.