she's meeting tamara vershitskaya, a noted jewish historian and the curator of the museum of history d jewish resistance. - lisa? - yes. - nice to meet you. my name is tamara. - tamara, hi. - hi. thank you. - it will be amazing if i can find any documentation. i'm worried that records were either lost or destroyed in the war. narrator: minsk, the capital of belarus, is about 40 miles southeast of ilya. before world war ii, communities like ilya had strong jewish roots going back hundreds of years, but world war ii forever changed the culture of eastern europe. - after the war, jewish communities were reduced to... 5% were left alive from the total community, 10% at most. yeah. - oh, my gosh. narrator: tamara has brought lisa to the state archives outside minsk to see if they can find out what happened to her great-grandmother, meri mordejovich. - hello. is it possible to know-- are there any documents if she were killed in ilya in that massacre? - yes, yes. - oh, there are documents? - they have copies of documents. - yeah. - the originals of them are kept in moscow. - wow. - ugh. nar