paula raksa, translator, bible scholar shmuel gardon, leader of the eno3 morning group. then in 1941-. the occupation of lida by the germans during the great patriotic war lasted 3 years. the izdeshne ghetto, along with vilnius, riga, and minsk, became one of the largest in the enemy-occupied territories of the soviet union. the ghetto occupied the entire city quarter, jews were herded here from all over the litsky district. i will not retell what happened in the litsky ghetto. but the exact number of jews killed and tortured here could not be calculated. in this burial there were not only adults, but also children. here are fragments of a child's shoe ring, a rubber ball, and a plastic elephant toy. that is , people were waiting to be driven to this particular execution, because they drove about 50 people there, lined up in a row, and the child, of course, was afraid, the arrows would rattle, it was scary. it happened, he cried, he suffered, probably the mother hugged the child to herself, consoled him as best she could, don’t cry, my baby, soon it won’t hurt, that is, at the moment