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Lot 221

Certificate to Survivor of Yassi Death Trains, 1948

Certificate by "Organisation of Death Trains Survivors in Yassi" confirming that Leibe Strom is one of the survivors. Issued in 1948, during the communist regime.
On 29.6.1941 a massacre took place in Yassi, thousands of Jews were mounted on two cargo-trains and died of hunger, thirst and strangled to death in the locked trains, About 7,000 people were killed and only a few hundreds survived.
27.5 cm. Poor condition. Tears with some text omission.