| Photos attached to Pages of Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem |
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People from Shumsk
who were killed in the Holocaust .................................................................................. |
These photos were part of a slideshow shown in August 2012 in Israel at the annual memorial event presented by the Organization of Kremenetsers in Israel / Shumsk. The memorial marks the anniversary of the date -- August 12, 1942 -- that the Nazis massacred the Jews of Shumsk. |
Name spellings and other information in
English come directly from Yad Vashem's translation of
the Page of Testimony with the picture. As noted at YadVashem.org,
sometimes the translation is done by computer, not a
human. If contradictory or supplementary information
from other sources is submitted to Lynne Tolman,
that information and the source will be noted in italics
below the larger version of the picture. The same goes
for identification of other individuals in a photo in
addition to the person who is the subject of the Page of
Testimony.
Click on any name or photo to see a larger picture
and more information from Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.
Many other Pages of Testimony for people from Shumsk do not have photos. A much longer list of those killed in the Holocaust is in the Shumsk Yizkor Book, written in Hebrew. The English translation of the Shumsk Yizkor Book, a work in progress, contains the list of surnames of The Martyrs of Shumsk and the number of people with each surname, but not the given names.
Finally, a few grim words about when, where and how these people likely were killed. Most of the Jews who were in Shumsk during the Nazi occupation were shot to death on Aug. 12, 1942, or in the next few days, at the edge of three freshly dug pits on the outskirts of Shumsk. According to a marker installed after World War II at this mass grave, 2,432 Jews are buried there. By one estimate, 90 percent of the Jews who were in Shumsk during the Nazi occupation were killed in the August 1942 massacre. Some others were murdered or died of illness before Aug. 12. About 100 people who had been selected by the Nazis, and another 70 or so who had hidden during the Aktion in mid-August, stayed alive in the synagogue in Shumsk after the massacre. But all except about 30 of those were killed by Yom Kippur, some six weeks later.