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Murder story of Lenin Jews in the Courtyard of the Executive Committee Building
Murder Site
Courtyard of the Executive Committee Building
Poland
Shortly after the occupation of Lenin, a group of eight Jewish teenagers, who had failed to comply with the Germans' orders, were shot dead in the courtyard of the county executive committee building. Because of the darkness, one of the boys managed to escape from the killing site, but was pursued by the Germans. Realizing that he was about to be caught, the boy drowned himself in the Lenin lake.
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From the testimony of Mordechay Zaychik, who was born in Lenin and lived there during the war years:
Early in the evening of the same day [in July 1941], this murderer ordered the deaths of eight young Jewish men, who were probably Komsomol members, including Shimon Shusterman, Shimon Beygelman, Kushe [sic] Galenson, Minks, and others. They were shot in cold blood, one after another, in the courtyard of the "Rayispolkom" (the former county executive committee) …One of the youths, Izik Brodetskiy, managed to escape from their clutches in the darkness and run away. They chased him to the bridge across the lake that divides the village in two. When his pursuers had caught sight of him, he realized that he was about to get captured, and so he chose to jump into the water and drown, instead of falling into the hands of the murderers.
Mordechay Zaychik, From the Diary of a Partisan–the Holocaust Survivor (Tel Aviv 1970-1971), pp. 234–236 (Hebrew)
Courtyard of the Executive Committee Building
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Murder Site
Poland
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