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Murder story of Postawy Jews in the Postawy Park

Murder Site
Postawy Park
Poland
In July 1941, several Jewish men from Postawy were arrested and shot, apparently in a local park. Several weeks later, they were reburied at the Jewish cemetery by their relatives.
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Riva Fridman, who was born in 1904 and lived in Postawy during the war, testifies:
הוועדה הממלכתית המיוחדת תעוד לחקר פשעי הנאצים, ברית המועצות, 1945-1943 על פשעים שבוצעו באזור POSTAWY, מחוז MOLODECZNO
In July of the same year (1941), the Germans arrested Chaim (?) Teilovich, Shailik Perman, his brother Rachmiel Perman, and Leiba Ionovich Raichel. The relatives of these persons later found their bodies in a park near the town, five weeks after their arrest.… They were all reburied at the Jewish cemetery by their relatives.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-89-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20015
Victor Adamovich, who was born in 1896 in Postawy and lived there during the war, testifies:
הוועדה הממלכתית המיוחדת תעוד לחקר פשעי הנאצים, ברית המועצות, 1945-1943 על פשעים שבוצעו באזור POSTAWY, מחוז MOLODECZNO
…Apart from the Jewish cemetery, there are graves both in the park and beyond it, in the southern and southwestern sections of the town of Postawy.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-89-13 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20015
Postawy Park
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Murder Site
Poland
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