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"Sheina
Gram - Fragments of a Diary" |
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Large
Synagogue on Brivibas Street (prev. Sondoru
Street), where on July 27, 1941, 250 Jews were herded
to be shot. Today the building houses a grocery
store. Photo taken in 2000. |
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Daugavpils
Street, which Sheina had to clean right
up to the day when she was shot on August 9, 1941.
Photo taken in 2000. |
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Thursday - July 31, 1941.
Each day
new persecutions
happen, and there is no
end in sight.
We have experienced
everything, but I don't know
if we'll be able to survive.
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The
Jewish girls are being
sent to clean Jewish homes
for our assassins.
They haven't taken me, but
when my slain girlfriend's
home had to be cleaned,
I went there.
I collected her photographs
and kept them for myself.
I still can't believe that my
friends are already dead. |
The
house of Boris Plagow, where Sheina, while cleaning
up the apartment for the leaders of the occupation, gathered
up photos of her murdered girlfriend. Photo taken in 2000. |
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Sunday
- August 3, 1941
Today is Tisha
b'Av .
I had never fasted on this day and never, in fact, observed fasts,
but precisely today, a week after the great disaster - after bloody
Sunday, when so many innocent victims were killed - I have
decided to fast for a whole day.
Thursday
- August 7, 1941
Today again
new rumours spread that more Jews will be shot.
Every person brings different news. |
The
place where in July and August 1941 Jews of the
city of Preili were murdered. Photo taken in 2000. |
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Friday
- August 8, 1941
The farmers
said that at night many aeroplanes flew over. At seven o'clock
we went to wash floors at the police station. Today the Chief
was in a terrible mood.
It rained non-stop…
When will
our suffering end? No one knows. But I feel that the worst horror
is closing in on me…
Editors
Note: And it did indeed happen on the following day - August 9,
1941.
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Memorial
stone in the Jewish cemetary in Preili: "We will
remember forever our parents, brothers, sisters and
children who were killed by the murderous hands of
Faschism in 1941". Photo taken in 2000. |
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