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Leon Bakst - Forced to dig a mass grave

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Leon Bakst - Forced to dig a mass grave
Leon Bakst - Forced to dig a mass grave
Transcript: After they put us in the ghettos, they prepared to make a massacre. Not only in our town, but all the towns everywhere around it and each town was almost identical. In fact, as me and my brother -- they picked us, they gave us shovels and we went out a mile from the center of the town and we dug two mass graves. And after we got through, I have it vividly remembered, it was a Rabbi's son -- he had a little bit, one arm, it wasn't as strong as the other, it was kind of a weak arm. So after we got through digging out, before we're fixing to go back to the ghetto, he shot him, right there in front of the grave. And we left.
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