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Murder story of Užpaliai Jews in the Lime Pits in the Užpaliai Jewish Cemetery Area
Murder Site
Užpaliai
Lithuania
On the second day of the German occupation of Užpaliai, June 27, 1941, the local anti-Soviet Lithuanian partisans rounded up a group of five-ten Jewish men on the pretext of sending them to forced labor. The partisans took them to the local Jewish cemetery, shot them, and threw the bodies into the nearby lime pits.
Yankl-Leyb Kopelansky testifies:
On the next day, June 27, these dregs assembled the first group of Jews and told them that they were taking them to work. And they took them to [the area of] the Jewish cemetery, shot them, and threw the bodies into a lime pit.…
Yankl-Leyb Kopelansky "It Used to Be and… Does not Exist Anymore", Israel, 1998, p.141 (in Yiddish)
Uzpaliai
lime pits
Murder Site
Lithuania
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