Shooting of Jews of Podbrodzie at the Poligon Camp

On Saturday, June 28, 1941, a group of Lithuanian partisans, led by an officer, arrived in the town. They were all heavily armed, and they began to seize Jewish men in their homes.… Feygele, the eyewitness, miraculously managed to rescue her father from the hands of the murderous partisans, with whom she was able to converse in fluent Lithuanian. That day, the partisans took eight Jewish men out of town. None of them were ever seen again. Several days later, local peasants reported that the eight Jews had been shot that same Saturday evening near the barracks, and buried in a single pit. In a few days' time, notices about the deaths of the eight Jews were posted in the streets of the town. These notices described the eight executed Jews as Communists and friends of the USSR.