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Clive Moss | profile | all galleries >> Travel Pics >> Eastern Europe - July 2004 >> Remembrance - Lithuania >> Tuesday - Kupiskis >> The Killing Field tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Panevezys to Kupiskis | Shacharit | Unveiling the Wall of Memory | The Killing Field | Ancestral Homes | People at the old Synagogue | People around Kupiskis | People back at the hotel in Panevezys

The Killing Field

We proceed to the cemetery where a proper Matzevah was built to solemnize the place where almost all the Jews in town were shot in July, 1941. About 50% of the town's population was marched in their underwear to this cemetery for "Freethinkers", shot, and thrown into an unmarked mass grave. The town archivist related the story to us. We listened in dismay and horror. We prayed. We cried.
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The Archivist
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