Death Box": On November 14, 1941, the Nazis shoot 9,000 Jews in the living rooms.
On November 14, 1941, the Nazis shot 9,000 Jews in the Belarusian salons. Before the war, this city was a major Jewish center. After Israel, more than 35 thousand people were forced to enter the ghetto.
Stress and terror.
"The Germans gradually applied pressure, mocked our human dignity, and said that you are not people, you are cattle," remembers Yaakov Shaptinsky, born in Salonim.
Scary day.
On November 14, 1941, thousands of Jews, under the pretext of "resettlement", were deported to the Ceplewski pits. "Living people walked, prayed, cried, cursed. But the worst thing is the children. They didn't understand why everyone around was screaming and crying... ".
People were forced to strip, shot and thrown into ditches, often half dead. "They pushed small children for the slightest resistance, they were shot on the spot," recalled prisoner Liyova Abramovich.
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Not only the SS, but also Latvian and Lithuanian police units participated in the executions.
Eternal memory for the victims. No one is forgotten.