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Murder Story of Pleshchenitsy Jews at the Palik Farm

Murder Site
Palik Farm
Belorussia (USSR)
Most local Jews (about 100 people, excluding skilled workers) were taken in November 1941 to the local farm Palik (according to, another sources to the Borisov vicinity) and were killed. It is likely that the Jews from Borisov were murdered together with those from Pleshchenitsy Jews.
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Shmuel Kugel testified:
They moved us into the ghetto... For two weeks we were living in the ghetto in great fear. At one point we saw rows of policemen entering and collecting the Jews from their houses, and bringing them all out to a field.... They collected the cobblers, the tailors,.... and returned them to the ghetto. I was in this group along with my wife, but the rest of our family, 8 people, were taken away in a cart. We didn't even have time to say farewell, to embrace a last time. We never saw them again. Silence reigned in the town. My wife ran from room to room as if she hoped to find her children. Books, ...., musical instruments - everything was in place, only the children were not there. My wife tore out her hair and then fainted.
Vladimir Levin and David Meltser, eds., Black Book with Red Pages (Baltimore, 1996) (Russian)
Palik Farm
Murder Site
Belorussia (USSR)
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