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

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Community:

Rokiskis

Murder Sites:

The Velniaduobe Woods

The Antanase Forest

Commemoration:

Commemoration of Jewish Victims

ChGK Soviet Reports

Note written in Yiddish by a Jewish woman in the last moments before her murder, 1941
TsGAMORF; copy YVA M.40.MAP/76

The Yad Vashem Archives hold a vast collection of documents amassed by the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission (ChGK).
The following report of the ChGK from October 1944 contains a description of the mass murder of the Jews in Rokiskis:
A note, written in pencil in Yiddish, found in the clothes of a female corpse during an exhumation carried out in October 1944, at the site of the mass murder of Jews near the village of Antanase, close to the town of Obeliai, Rokiskis County, Lithuania:

My dearest, before I die I am writing a few words, we are about to die, 5,000 innocent people, they are cruelly shooting us, kisses to you all, Mira.

Related Resources

German reports

ChGK Soviet Reports