The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR

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Skrydlewo

On December 5-8, 1941, most of the Jews were gathered in Nowogrodek’s court building on Minsk Street. On December 8, 1941, after a selection process, the women, children, elderly and male unskilled workers were separated and brought by truck to the area near the village of Skrydlewo. Altogether 4,000-5,100 Jews, including elderly Jews previously imprisoned in the Nazarene School Building, were then shot. Members of the SiPO branch from Baranowicze, the first division of Company 7 of Infantry Battalion 727 of the Wehrmacht, and local gendarmes carried out the murders, with the assistance of auxiliary police forces recruited from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as local Polish and Belarussian police. The victims were buried in two pits.

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Esya Shor was born in 1925 in Nowogrodek, and lived there during the war years.

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