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Murder Story of Dzisna Jews in the Dzisna Market Square
Murder Site
Market square, near the Orthodox church.
Poland
On July 14, 1941, the Germans assembled 100 male residents of Dzisna in the market square, picked every tenth man, and shot these ten persons dead in front of their fellows. Seven of the victims were Jews. This massacre was presented by the Germans as a reprisal for the cutting of a German telephone wire, and was intended to intimidate the local population.
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Written Accounts
Nina Smushkin writes in her memoir:
Without waiting for long, the Germans began to murder the residents of the town. First, they shot ten people, not all of whom were Jewish. They [the Germans] rounded up all the town residents, lined up a hundred men in the market square, picked every tenth man, took the selected individuals to the boulevard, and shot them. As far as I recall, the two Greiniman brothers were among the victims. Their father was permitted to bury them.
in Hebrew and Yiddish. Beilin, Aharon: Dzisna: Memorial Book to the Community
Market square
near the Orthodox church.
Murder Site
Poland
55.562;28.225