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Murder story of Stołpce Jews in the Okińczyce Forest
Murder Site
Akinchitsy Forest
Poland
The second mass murder in Stołpce was the killing of 76 (or 87, according to other sources) "rich" Jews (i.e., white-collar Jewish professionals: teachers, physicians, engineers, lawyers, rabbis, etc.), which took place in late July 1941. The killing site was the former Okińczyce Forest, east of the lake, at the eastern edge of Stołpce (now part of the town).
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Written Accounts
German Reports / Romanian Reports
From the memoir of Getzel Reiser:
One day, when we had returned from work, they surrounded us from all sides and snatched 87 men (white-collar professionals and other notable persons) from among us. These men were pointed out by young non-Jews who were sitting with a German Gestapo officer in a vehicle.…
At that time, no one knew exactly what had happened to them. Only when the rains began did some people come across a pit in the Okińczyce Forest, by sheer accident. Only by looking at the victims' clothes could they identify Chaim Dvoretzky, Moshe Bogin, Rabbi Shleime Chari, Leizer Leib Shleif, and the others who had been shot there together.
Nahum Hinits, ed., Memorial book of Stoyebts-Sverzhno and the Towns in the Vicinity…, Tel Aviv, 1964, pp. 316-317 (Hebrew)
Akinchitsy Forest
forest
Murder Site
Poland
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