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They made sure to collect the bodies to the Great Synagogue, and on Fridays they would rent a large truck, which they would fill with seventy to eighty bodies R"L, and transfer them to the cemetery for burial, where they would dig a huge pit that quickly became another mass grave R"L.

One of the few who merited individual burial in those days was Rabbi Yehoshua Nimotin, one of the important Chabad rabbonim of that time. He and his wife died of starvation at the end of Shvat 1942. R' Baruch Shifrin, R' Michael Lipsker and [[~~Rabbi~~ Zalman Shimon Dvorkin]] made sure to bury them side by side in an individual grave, but during the war the markers for the grave location were lost, and today the location of their burial is unknown.

One of the few who merited individual burial in those days was Rabbi Yehoshua Nimotin, one of the important Chabad rabbonim of that time. He and his wife died of starvation at the end of Shvat 1942. R' Baruch Shifrin, R' Michael Lipsker and Rabbi [[Zalman Shimon Dvorkin]] made sure to bury them side by side in an individual grave, but during the war the markers for the grave location were lost, and today the location of their burial is unknown.

During the war, he fled to Georgia, where he served as mashpia and mashgiach in Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva Kutaisi.

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 They made sure to collect the bodies to the Great Synagogue, and on Fridays they would rent a large truck, which they would fill with seventy to eighty bodies R"L, and transfer them to the cemetery for burial, where they would dig a huge pit that quickly became another mass grave R"L.
-One of the few who merited individual burial in those days was Rabbi Yehoshua Nimotin, one of the important Chabad rabbonim of that time. He and his wife died of starvation at the end of Shvat 1942. R' Baruch Shifrin, R' Michael Lipsker and [[Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin]] made sure to bury them side by side in an individual grave, but during the war the markers for the grave location were lost, and today the location of their burial is unknown.
+One of the few who merited individual burial in those days was Rabbi Yehoshua Nimotin, one of the important Chabad rabbonim of that time. He and his wife died of starvation at the end of Shvat 1942. R' Baruch Shifrin, R' Michael Lipsker and Rabbi [[Zalman Shimon Dvorkin]] made sure to bury them side by side in an individual grave, but during the war the markers for the grave location were lost, and today the location of their burial is unknown.
 During the war, he fled to Georgia, where he served as mashpia and mashgiach in Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva Kutaisi.