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Holocaust in Rokiskis

The 23rd of Av [15 August 1941] and the 2nd of Elul [25 August 1941] commemorate the mass slaughter of the Jewish people in Rokiskis .

Bajorai Killing Site
(photo courtesy of Philip Shapiro)

Bajorai Killing Site

(photo courtesy of Robin Esrock)

Plaque at the Bajorai Killing Site

The Jews from the Rokiskis district were murdered at Bajorai, also known as Velniaduobe. The inscription is written in two languages, Lithuanian and Yiddish, and has been translated for us by Regina Kopilevich.

The plaque reads "In this place Hitlerists and their local helpers on August 15 and 16, 1941 cruelly killed 3207 Jews - children, women, men. Let the memory of them be blessed."

Monument at mass grave

Monument, located at the site of the mass graves (in the Iodupe forest near Rokiskis) of the several thousand Jews who were murdered by the Nazis and Lithuanian police on August 15 and 16, 1941. The inscription in Russian, Lithuanian and Yiddish reads: Here rest those killed by Lithuanian-German nationalists on 15-16 of August, 1941.

Courtesy Boris Feldblyum Collection

Close-up View

The inscription in Russian, Lithuanian and Yiddish reads: Here rest those killed by Lithuanian-German nationalists on 15-16 of August, 1941.

(photograph courtesy of Isobel Fleishman)

Jager Report

From The Jager Report, a detailed report by SS-Standartenfuehrer Jager regarding mass killings in Nazi occupied USSR, July - November, 1941.

The Commander of the security police and the SD Einsatzkommando 3, Kauen (Kaunas), 1 December 1941.

Complete list of executions carried out in the EK 3 area up to 1 December 1941. Security police duties in Lithuania taken over by Einsatzkommando 3 on 2 July 1941. On my instructions and orders the following executions were conducted by Lithuanian partisans:

June 27 - August 14, 1941, Rokiskis 493 Jews, 432 Russians, 56 Lithuanians (all active communists) 981

August 15-16, 1941, Rokiskis 3,200 Jews, Jewesses, and J. Children, 5 Lith. Comm., 1 Pole, 1 partisan 3207

Concentration Camp Victims

Below you will find several tables which provide the names of Rokiskis people who ended up in German concentration camps.

This information is gathered from several JewishGen Databases. Thanks to the efforts of Holocaust researcher Peter Lande and his volunteers, we are able to look at the translated information from the Captured German Records Collection, which is housed at the United States National Archives in College Park, MD. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased copies of these many reels of microfilm, which prompted this project.

Dachau Concentration Camp Records

Page	Name	Date of Birth	Town of Birth	Town of Residence	Street and #	Prisoner #	Category	Arrived	Disposition
141/Di.	ATLAS , Jacob	15 Jan 1901	Rokisehai	Kauen		80887	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	befr. Kaufering
565/Gl	BORODAVKA , Mottel	1925	Rakiski	Rakiski		92 696	Sch. Lit. J.	22 Aug 1944 v. Stutth.	befr. Mühldorf
594/Ha	BOVODAWKA , Schajay	1914	Rokischki	Kauen		80892	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	befr. Kauf.
1.671-Ky.	CELZER , Jeguda	27 Jul 1927	Rokischikiz	Kauen		82 468	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	befreit Kaufering
1012/Su	DAWIDIWITZ , Boruch	15 Jun 1914	Rakischke	Kauen		84749	Sch. J. Lit.	Zug. 01 Aug 1944 Kauen	befr. Kaufering
1609/Gä	GALAS , Josef	17 Feb 1899	Raksic	Brünn	Kernerstr. 13	16043	Sch Tsch.	29 Aug 1940 Sa.	6 Jul 1945 Abg.d Fl. (zurück am 28 Nov 1944 üb. 28 Nov 1944 n. Bu.)
1687/Bg.	GERMAN , Mischa	01 Jan 1925	Rakischki	Schaulen	Wilnaerstr. 128	92 710	Sch. Lit. J.	22 Aug 1944 Stutth.	befr. Mühldorf
1687/Bg.	GERMANN , Salomon	13 Nov 1895	Rakischki	Schaulen	Wilnaerstr. 128	92 713	Sch. Lit. J	22 Aug 1944 Stutth.	befr. Mühldorf
1816/Su	GORDON , Nathan	05 Sep 1906	Rokoskis	Panawezis	Stotiestr. 3	85448	Sch. Lit. J	zug. 01 Aug 1944 Kauen	gest. 23 Mar 1945
2484/Bg	JOFFE , Abraham	31 Mar 1901	Rakischki	Abeli		84 693	Sch. Lit. J.	01 Aug 1944 v. Kauen	gest. 08 Feb 1945
3898/Ch	MILLER , Schmerl	1901	Rokischkis	Kauen	Linkuvos 42	81515	Sch. Lit. J.	Zug. 15 Jul 1944	gest. 22 Dec 1944
4419/	PEN , Benjamin	12 Aug 1921	Rokischkis	Kauen	Ukmerges 12	85 516	Sch. Lit. J.	01 Aug 1944 v. Kauen	07 Jan 1945 Fl.

Notes:
Category - Sch=prisoner, Lit= Lithuanian J=Jew
Disposition - Befr=Liberated, Gest=Died

Sharit Ha-Platah Information

Sharit Ha-Platah , which translates into English as "Holocaust Survivors" or literally as "Counted Remnant", was published in 1946 by the "Central Committee of Jews in Bavaria", in Munich, Germany and contains the names of 61,387 Jews who survived the Holocaust.

Most of these names were collected by Chaplain (Rabbi) Abraham Klausner, who visited many of the camps in southern Germany where survivors had gathered in late 1945 and 1946. For more information on this collection go to the JewishGen explanation.

Name	Born	Year	Last Known Location	ID	Page	Line
BASCH , Ruwim	Rokiskis	1906	Feldafing	368	13	43
FLOCH , Dawid	Rokiskis	1916	Freimann	2018	76	141
LEVIN , Aron	Rokiskis	1895	München	1691	197	33
SCHALITAN , Scheftel	Rokiske	1924	Dachau	932	284	104
SOCHAT , Leo	Rokiskis	1907	München	5563	312	112

Thanks to Rokiskis SIG member Steven Weiss for finding this information.