Lunna, Belarus

Lunna or Lunno[1] is a town in the Grodno Region of Belarus.

History

Before 1938, 60% of the 2 522 inhabitants were Jewish, around 300 families.[2] The town was under Soviet control in the first stage in the war, from August 1939 to June 1941 when the German army occupied the village.[3] At that time, the Jewish community of Lunna was around 1300, with another 400 living in Wola. From October 1941 to November 1942, Lunna and Wola Jews were confined to a ghetto where five to seven families lived in each house. The Jews were brutalized, conscripted for slave labor, and punished severely for any infraction. Many died in the ghetto. In November 1942, ghetto residents were transported to the Kielbasin transit camp where they lived for a month and then sent to Auschwitz. Almost all died there, most immediately. Two, Zalman Gradowski and Josef Dereszynski, led an armed uprising against the guards in Auschwitz in October 1944, an uprising in which three other Lunna residents participated. All died in the revolt. In all, a few more than a dozen Jews from Lunna survived the war.[4] [5]

  • Synagogue of Lunna, 1930.
  • Interior of the synagogue.
  • Side view of the synagogue.

See also
  • List of cities in Belarus#Hrodna Province

References
  1. Shtetls of Belarus - Lunna, Grodno uyezd, Grodno gubernia Archived 2007-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
  2. http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/lunna/memorials.html
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-07-17. Retrieved 2016-05-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Megargee, Geoffrey (2012). Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press. p. Volume II, 920-922. ISBN 978-0-253-35599-7.
  5. http://www.mishpoha.org/n21/21a10.php

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