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Murder story of Złoczów Jews at the Palas Movie Theater in Złoczów
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Zloczow
Poland
According to the testimony of Holocaust survivor Shmuel Holander, on the first day of the German occupation of Złoczów, July 2, 1941, the local Rabbi Apelboim, together with a group of twenty Jewish Red Army soldiers, were put up against the wall of the Palas movie theater in the center of town, and shot dead.
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Shmuel Holander, who lived in Zloczow during the war years, testifies:
…On the first day after the arrival of German troops [in Złoczów], they took Rabbi Shloymkele Shperker Epelboim, put him up against the wall of the Palas movie theater, together with twenty Jewish Red Army soldiers, and shot them all dead. Their bodies were thrown into a pit. Afterward, the Jews buried the pit and carved a sign into the movie theater wall to commemorate [them]….
ZIH, WARSAW 301/2850 copy YVA M.49 / 2850
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