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| Announcement Posted By Nazi Authorities
Around Lubny Lubny, Ukraine Mid-October 1941 Announcement was in German, Ukrainian and Russian "All Jewish inhabitants of Lubny and the surrounding area must report at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday the 16th of October 1941 to the Zamoc-Qustr-Nx (behind the bridge) for resettlement. Bring food for three days and warm clothing. Those who do not comply will be shot. Anyone caught breaking into closed Jewish residences, or attempting to plunder, will be shot. The Aryan population is asked to report Jews who do not comply" "Another platoon of Sonderkommando 4a was active at Lubny. Without any opposition it executed 1,363 Jews, Communists and partisans, among them 53 prisoners-of-war and a few Jewish rifle-women. Before the war, Lubny had 35,000 inhabitants, among them 14,000 Jews. A recent census undertaken by the local municipal administration showed that of 20,000 inhabitants allegedly only 1,500 Jews can be listed." "The Einsatzgruppen Reports", Holocaust Library Edited by Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakoweki, Shmuel Spector New York, N.Y. 1989, Pages 227-228. |