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Murder story of Dzisna Jews in the Dzisna Area
Murder Site
Dzisna Area
The 17 Jewish "specialists" (i.e., artisans), who had been temporarily spared by the Germans during the liquidation of the ghetto in June 1942, were killed in winter 1943 (the most likely date is January 23, 1943) near the police station in the southwestern part of Dzisna. Their bodies were buried near the village of Sharagi (Szaragi Mikołajewskie), two-three kilometers west of Dzisna.
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Written Accounts
Nina Smushkin recollects:
From Chabracki [a Polish truck driver who helped the Jews], we learned some details of the liquidation of the Dzisna Ghetto. The Germans killed seventeen specialists on January 22, 1943, the 16th of Shvat. The pretext was the escape of Dr. Lekakh to the partisans. The Germans feared that these seventeen would likewise defect to the partisans, so they arrested them all, took them to the police station in Dzisna, and shot them in the warehouse. Their bodies were thrown into the pits… behind the gymnasium.
A. Beilin et al., eds., Disna: sefer zikaron le-kehila, Tel Aviv, 1969, pp. 170 (Hebrew)
Dzisna Area
Murder Site
Poland