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Murder story of Lida Jews in the Former Prison Area in Lida
Murder Site
Lida
Poland
A number of Jews from Vilna, who deemed Lida to be a safer place than their own city, fled to this town and lived there illegally. However, Lida proved to be unsafe: In March 1942, following a denunciation by Jewish traitors, 35 refugees from Vilna were arrested by the German Gendarmerie and shot, together with the traitors themselves, in the area of the town prison. Soviet sources also refer to the shooting of eight prominent members of the local intelligentsia on May 2, 1942, at the same location.
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Written Accounts
ChGK Soviet Reports
Excerpts from the Memory Book. Lida and Lida County about the shootings of Jews in March 1943:
On May 2, 1942, 8 prominent members of the Jewish community were shot after being subjected to torture (including breaking of the upper and the lower limbs). Among the victims were: the lawyers Karener and Tsiderovich, the teacher Dichtman, and others. This has been reported by the eyewitness Golenbovsky, a physician from the Lida town hospital, who also took part in the burial. The shooting was carried out in the prison courtyard. The bodies were handed over to the ghetto inmates.
V. Baranov at all., eds., Memory Book. Lida and Lida County, Minsk, 2004, p. 194 (Belarusian).
Lida
prison
Murder Site
Poland
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