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AfterMarch 1942, the Germansbeganrounding up Jews and sending them to the Belzecdeath camp. The 7,000 Jews they forced out of

hiding were immediately shot.

Mia and Lia were twelve years old when the Germans occupied Lvov. The residents were taken to Kaiserwald concentration camp, where most died.

We know nothing about Isac and his family after the Germans occupied Liepaja in 1941.

German and Ukrainian police units surrounded the ghetto, blocking all exits. No further traces have ever been found. There they were shot by firing squads, two gunmen for each victim. On June 29, 1941, a week after the invasion of Russia, the Germans occupied Liepaja.

Jewish males age 16 to 60 were required to report daily at the city square.

Of those who reported, some were sent to forced labor, and others were taken to prison. The two girls were alwaysdressed in pretty clothes, and had many toys and dolls. No details are known about her fate.

Lia was one of 1.5 million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust.

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Lia Borak

Born 1928 in Lvov (Lemberg), Poland

Lia and her twin sister, Mia, were the daughters of Evelina (Wender) and Adolf Borak.

During the move, over 5,000 elderly and sick Jews were murdered.

Conditions in the ghetto were horrendous. At first, they were imprisoned in local internment camps by the Italian police.

During four days of horrible antisemitic rioting, over 4,000 Jews were killed. It was home to a Jewish population of 110,000 and was a center of culture, education and political activity. During the move, over 5,000 elderly and sick Jews were murdered. Otherunits were sent into ghetto to capture the remaining inhabitants.

On June 29, 1941, a week

after the invasion of Russia, the Germans occupied Liepaja. Only those working in factories that performed essential functions for the German military were to be spared.

Lvov had a thriving Jewish community in 1939. Im Frühjahr 1942 begannen die Deportationen in das Vernichtungslager Belzec. Latvia was annexed to the Soviet Union in 1940.

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Lia Borak

Lia Borak and her twin sister, Mia, daughters of Evelina and Adolf Borak, were born in 1928.

That winter, the Germansbegansending Jews to labor camps, where they were worked to death.