Viduklė (Vidukle) | Kaunas

Execution of Jews in Viduklė

2 Sitio(s) de ejecución

Tipo de lugar antes:

Field

Memoriales:

Yes

Período de ocupación:

1941-1944

Entrevista del testigo

Juozas D. answers questions:
"Y.U.: Did the Jews take any belongings with them?
Juozas D.: No, they didn't take anything. They were stripped. If women had some jewelry it was all taken from them. They left everything as it was. I don't know what happened to the confiscated jewelry. Everything was taken from the Jews and their houses.
Y.U.: Did they come to search for jewelry on the day of the arrest or a few days later?
Juozas D.: Everything happened on the same day.
Y.U.: Who came to search in the houses: Germans or locals?
Witness: Mostly Germans. They knew the streets and the numbers of the houses to be searched. The Jews were brought by German trucks with covered trailers to avoid the looks but weeping and screams could be heard." (Eyewitness N°17, interviewed in Viduklė, on November 27, 2013).

Archivos soviéticos

Starting from July 1941, a camp for the Jews was created at the Viduklė railway station. Since that moment, all the Jews were detained there for a week. They were guarded. As it was built, an excavation pit was dug. At one moment, they started to widen the pit. Nobody knew why the Gestapo soldiers did that. In July 1941, I don’t remember the exact day; a truck with 20 Gestapo soldiers arrived. As they came Jews were out of the camp at work. Once gathered in the camp, according to the order, all the Jews were brought to the pit about 500m away from the camp. Once there, the Jews were told to lie down, face to the ground. Then, in groups of 10 they were forced to get down in the pit and were shot. Shortly after, another group, who had to lie down on the bodies from the previous group, was shot. In that way, in one day 200 Jews were killed. [Deposition of Stasis T., born in 1909, who during the war worked at the railway station; RG-22.002M.7021-94/427]

Nota histórica

Viduklė is located 64 kilometers (40 miles) south- southwest of Šiauliai. 221 Jews lived in the town on the date of 1923 when a population census was conducted. On June 23, 1941, Viduklė was occupied by German army.

Holocausto por balas en cifras

Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania

Otros enlaces

• Go to the LitvakSIG website, whose mission is to preserve Litvak heritage by discovering, collecting, documenting and disseminating information about the once vibrant Jewish community of Lithuania.

Pueblos cercanos

• Padubysys
• Tytuvėnai

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