Vyžuonos Related Murder Sites
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Murder story of Vyžuonos Jews in the Rašė Forest
Murder Site
Rašė Area
Lithuania
On August 7, Rollkommando Hamann (a German mobile killing unit), with the assistance of the Lithuanian "white armbanders", killed 570 Jews (483 men and eighty-seven women) in the Rašė Forest, some two kilometers north of Utena, a little to the west of the village of Rašė. The remaining Jews of Vyžuonos, who appear to have numbered 150-200 people, were among the victims of this massacre.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
From the final report (Akt) of the ChGK (the date is unclear):
Three kilometers from the town of Utena, near the Rašė estate, [there is] a trench that is 100 meters long, three meters deep, and four meters wide; near this trench, there are two additional pits – measuring twenty and thirty meters in length, respectively – and five pits more. These pits contain [the remains of] more than nine thousand non-combatants – men and women, elderly people and children – who were either shot or buried alive.…
YVA O.33 / 1733
Rašė Area
forest
Murder Site
Lithuania
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