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Murder story of Lida Jews in the Borki Neighborhood
Murder Site
Borki Neighborhood
Poland
In March 1943, approximately 2,000 Jewish inmates of the Lida Ghetto (including both natives of Lida and Jews brought there from nearby towns) were assembled in front of the post office and escorted to Borki (also known as Bary), at the northwestern edge of the town, near Krupowska (present-day Gastello) Street. They were then shot in the area of the former shooting range. The site of this final massacre was conclusively identified only in the early 2000s.
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Written Accounts
Excerpts from the Memory Book. Lida and Lida County about the shootings of Jews in spring 1943:
…If only somebody could adequately describe the tragedy that unfolded in 1943, when a large crowd of Jews was assembled in this square. These included a small number of surviving local Jews and more than 2,000 Jews brought over from Lida. It was in the first days of March. The snow had melted into a watery, porridge-like mass. The Jews sensed that this was the end: they were destroying their money and throwing their jewelry into the swamps. The criminals shot them at the so-called Bary (northwest of Lida). Eyewitnesses mentioned some first and last names: Berkovich, Meyer and his son Lipka, Oran, Meishke, Leizar, Nakhman, Ruvka, Leiba, and many others.
V. Baranov at all, eds., Memory Book. Lida and Lida County, Minsk, 2004, p. 196 (Belarusian).
Borki Neighborhood
Murder Site
Poland
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