TESTIMONY: Georgi: “We were coming back from the fields and saw trucks full of Jews going past. The last truck stopped nearby and we were forced to climb on. There were 4 Jewish men in the truck with us. The trucks then stopped. The Jewish were hit and ...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Valentina – “After the departure of the Germans, we ran to the grave, we removed the soil with our hands, searching for survivors. The women lifted up the bodies and the children pulled them out of the grave. For an hour, we did everyth...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Vasile P. – “The majority of Jews were involved in small scale trade. They had shops where one could buy sugar, matches, petrol to light the lamps – everything one needed. Moishe, Ragmir, Itzel Cole, Mihai Sabltitsa were the J...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Czeslaw – “To hide the traces of their crimes, the Germans burned the victims’ bodies”. BASIC INFO: Yahad sent a research team for its 19th trip to Poland from the 2 to 19 August 2017. The team concentrated on the Wester...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Kazimierz – ”One day, German gendarmes rounded up Radecznica. They chased Jews from their houses. They brought around 35-40 people, entire families, behind the monastery and they shot them. I climbed in a tree to watch the shooting....
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Jan – “When the ghetto was liquidated, the Jews were brought on foot to the train station of Sobolew. A lot of them couldn’t walk and they were shot on the road.” BASIC INFO: During this trip the Yahad – In Unum te...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Vera R.”The victims had to put their clothes on a cart and were shot at the edge of a specially enlarged pit. It was mainly the police who fired. German officials arrived at the end of the shooting to inspect the work. A few months later,...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Pavlina – “The head of the village promised the Jewish family of Gedar’ that he would hide them. The Jewish woman had just given birth to a little girl. Two days later, the Germans came and killed them all.” BASIC INFO: ...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: BASIC INFO: During the 5 days of research in Ukraine, a Yahad – In Unum team conducted a full investigation in the town of Myropil and its surroundings, located in the Zhytomyr region and began research in the town of Polonne, in the regi...
Continue ReadingTESTIMONY: Yevgen lived next to the Jewish cemetery. During the war, he regularly saw Jewish men escorted by the Jewish police to the cemetery. They were forced to break the tombstones that then were used to pave the roads. Today, there are no longer any ...
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