Dobromysli | Vitebsk

/ A street in Dobromysli. © Aleksey Kasyanov - Yahad - In Unum Inside a local house. © Aleksey Kasyanov - Yahad - In Unum The former Jewish cemetery. © Aleksey Kasyanov - Yahad - In Unum Ivan G., born in 1932, remembered the interrogation of the local population that took place in October 1943. © Aleksey Kasyanov -Yahad - In Unum Vera A., Belarusian, born in 1921. She saw the round up of the Jews in Dobromysli. © Aleksey Kasyanov -Yahad - In Unum The Yahad team looking for witnesses in Dobromysli. © Aleksey Kasyanov -Yahad - In Unum The killing site of the Jews from Dobromysli. © Aleksey Kasyanov -Yahad - In Unum

Execution of Jews in Dobromysli

1 Killing site(s)

Kind of place before:
Near the cemetery
Memorials:
Yes
Period of occupation:
1941-1943

Witness interview

Vera A., a Belarusian, born in 1921: “About a year after the German’s arrival, in the autumn 1942, the Jews were gathered in the house of Haim, a tailor. There were elderly people, as the younger people had already fled. The house was not guarded. " (Witness N°570, interviewed in Dobromysli on October 26th 2011)

Soviet archives

“I saw how 15 Jews were driven to the Adamenka sovkhoze. There was a large ravine where they were shot.” [Deposition of Ivan O. drawn up by Soviet Extraordinary commission; RG-22.002.7021-84/8]

Historical note

Dobromysli was a small village near Lyozno, which consisted of two streets; one where the Jews lived and one where the Belarussians lived. 

Holocaust by bullets in figures

Around 110 Jews from Dobromysli were gathered into a house and shot near the cemetery. 

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