The Shoah (1939–1945)
Shooting of Kupiškis
7 septembre 1941·Kupiškis
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After six weeks of confinement in barns and stables, the community is led out of the city and shot; the few men retained for work are killed shortly after, and not a single Jew remains in the district.
In Kupiškis, the men are taken first, accused of communist sympathies; the women and children remain a few weeks longer, crowded into the stables of a farmhouse on the outskirts, before being led to the woods where the pits are ready. The town, which had an ancient community endowed with schools and a house of study, has not a single Jewish inhabitant left by the end of autumn.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Lituanie
Christoph Dieckmann, *Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen* ; Dov Levin, *The Litvaks*.