THE TRAGEDY OF OUR HOMETOWN

About the Book

In the book “The Tragedy of our hometown. Holocaust in Disna”, you hear the voices of Jews who have escaped from Disna’s ghetto. Their parents, brothers and sisters were murdered and remained in the mass graves.

Local History teachers are telling the truth about the Jewish tragedy in Disna. Escapees from ghetto-partisans are telling about diversions against the Nazis and local policemen.

A list of murdered Disna’s Jews Jews from Disna, who shed blood on different frontlines of WWII, have reached Vienna and Berlin. Some local Belarusian risked their lives for hiding and saving Jews.

Although the Holocaust of the Jewish population was a tragedy of Belarus, Belarusian historians almost omitted the Holocaust or describe it extremely briefl y. Authors of the History handbook are telling that ‘’a tragic fate has befallen the Jews. The destruction by the Nazis during the WWII of the Jewish population of Europe has received the name “holocaust” A result of the carried out punitive operations during the war were exterminated more than 600 thousands Jews”. The authors do not describe the essential role of the many local collaborators who assisted the Nazis in humiliation, robbery, shooting of the innocent Jewish men, women and children, and in hiding of their atrocities.

The Holocaust survivors have disturbed the Nazi plan of “Final Solution of the Jewish question.” The small number of Holocaust survivors has planted and their descendants continue planting new Jewish generations. They are successful wherever they found a refuge around the world.

About the Author

M O S H E I O F I S, a Holocaust survivor and WWII veteran, was injured in a battle for Vienna, in 1945. His earlier publications: “When We Were Young. Russian WWII Veterans’ Memoirs” (2005) and “Holocaust Survivors-WWII Warriors.”(2010)