Abstract The interview with Lev Plyut was conducted by the author during the second research trip of Yahad-In Unum to Belarus in July 2008, in the Vitebsk Oblast. Plyut was born 1930 as the eldest son of Malka Dyckman and Gavriil Plyut. His interview is the moving story of the survival of a Jewish-Belarusian family in Chashniki during World War II, a small town in the north of what is now Belarus. Between February, 14th an 15th 1942 more than 1,180 Jews of the community of Chashniki were murdered in the village of Zaretchnaya Sloboda by the Einsatzkommando 9, led by Oswald Schäfer. He was formally charged in 1966 but was acquitted by the Regional Court of Berlin. In the late 1960s, a first memorial stone was erected at the site of the killings. Since 1981, an obelisk has marked the location as a memorial to the victims.
Andrej Umansky (Tue,) studied this question.