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

Memorial commemorating the Jews of Rokiskis, Mount Zion, Jerusalem
YVA, Photo Collection 4702/5

Plaque on the monument at the Velniaduobe Woods murder site
Jewish Cemeteries and Monuments of Lithuania (USSR,, 1991) Producer: Boris Kaplan
Yad Vashem, The Visual Center V685

After the war, Jewish survivors from the towns and villages in the vicinity of Rokiskis erected monuments over the mass graves in the Velniaduobe Woods and the Antanase Forest.
Along with a Star of David, the plaque on the monument erected in the Velniaduobe Woods bore the following inscription, engraved in Yiddish and Lithuanian: “At this site on August 15-16, 1941, Hitler’s murderers and their local collaborators cruelly murdered 3,207 Jews – children, women and men. May their memory be blessed”.
Along with a Star of David, the plaque on the monument erected in the Antanase Forest bore the following inscription, engraved in Yiddish and Lithuanian: “Here the blood of 1,160 Jews – children, women and men – was shed, cruelly murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators in 1941". In 1952, former Jewish inhabitants of Rokiskis published a Yizkor (memorial) book through the Rakishker Landsmanshaft in Johannesburg (South Africa), edited by Melech-Bakalchuk-Felin.

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Elizabeth Eizendorf was born in 1929 in Berezino

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Commemorative visit to the Velniaduobe Woods murder site, 1991
Jewish Cemeteries and Monuments of Lithuania
(USSR, 1991)
Producer: Boris Kaplan
Yad Vashem, The Visual Center V685

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Commemorative visit to the Antanase Forest murder site, 1991
Jewish Cemeteries and Monuments of Lithuania
(USSR, 1991)
Producer: Boris Kaplan
Yad Vashem, The Visual Center V685

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