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Murder Story of Radoszkowice Jews at the Radoszkowicze Jewis Cemetery
Murder Site
Radoszkowice
Poland
On March 11, 1942 SS and SD forces surrounded the ghetto. The Germans drove the Jews to the market place, beating them with rubber truncheons and gun butts. Sick persons were shot to death on the spot. From time to time, the Germans also shot into the crowd. The Jews were divided into two groups -- of those cosidered capable of working -- was composed of young persons and specialists, the other - of those deemed unfit to work. The Germans took the second group -- composed from women, children, and men considered incapable of working -- to a barn. Then the Germans took the men into the barn in groups of four and shot them to death. The Germans poured gasoline ove the bodies of the Jews and set the barn on fire. During this murder operation about 850 Jews were murdered.
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The ChGK reports from Radoszkowice
…On March 11, 1942 a German SD unit surrounded Radoszkowice, collected all the Jews, including babies and sick persons, who were shot immediately. The [other] Jews were taken to the market, where they were beaten with rubber truncheons and guns butts…..[Then] they were taken to a barn and were shot there and the barn was set on fire. Those who [were still alive or wounded, and] tried to escape were thrown into the flames…. The perpetrators needed two days to burn down the barn and cover over the evidence of the murder of 860 innocent children, women, and older civilians.
…A witness who escaped the fire… reported:
"On March 7, 1943, a murder squad from Wilejka arrived in Radoszkowice. The Gestapo surrounded the ghetto and forced the Jews out of their houses. They were taken to a barn. The shooting was carried out in the barn. The barn was locked and then set on fire.
Some of the victims screamed or groaned from pain. The Gestapo men laughed and shot. On that day 340 people were killed…
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-89-14 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20015
Radoszkowice
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