[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland]

[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland] 

[Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland] 

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Testimony of J. L., 18 years old, and Z. L., 21 years old carpenter, brothers from Ostrow Mazowiecki, giving details about the massacre of 561 of the city's Jews by the Germans. They describe how the Germans together with the local Poles drove the Jews out of their homes, took them outside of town, and forced them to dig mass graves. They were then forced to lie in the graves, and to take their children down into the graves, and were shot with rifles and revolvers. The survivors fled to the Russian side of the border. Protocol No. 192 is an extract from a volume of protocols /statements provided by a group of Polish-Jewish refugee writers and journalists who fled to Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1939 they formed a committee to collect evidence on the condition of the Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation.