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Murder Story of Poryck Jews at the Hospital in Poryck
Murder Site
Hospital in Poryck
Poland
On September 1, (or according to the ChGK document in July) 1942, early in the morning, Ukrainian auxiliary police, under the supervision of the German Gendarmerie (rural order police), surrounded the ghetto. The Ukrainian auxiliary policemen burst in and drove the Jews onto the street. Those Jews who had been admitted to the hospital were shot to death by Ukrainian policemen.
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From the testimony of Sonia Rubinsztein, who was born in 1924 in Poryck and was living there during its German occupation
That tragic day of September 1, 1942 (the 9th of the Jewish month of Elul) exceeded in suffering all that the town of Poryck had experienced since the Germans had arrived. On that day, in the morning, we saw that the shtetl of Poryck had been surrounded on all sides by Ukrainians [Ukrainian auxiliary policemen]. At that time 3,000 Jews lived in our town … . One could not imagine what was going to happen when the Ukrainians entered and drove everyone out. All the elderly people who were found were shot to death immediately. Ukrainian [auxiliary] policemen also attacked the hospital and killed all the patients, including my sister, who was lying ill there with typhus. She met her death there. …
YVA M.1 / 1494.1
Hospital in Poryck
Murder Site
Poland
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