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Murder Story of Hancewicze Jews at the Piaski in the Hancewicze Area
Murder Site
Peski Tract near Hancewicze
Poland
Some testimonies report that about 100 Jewish refugees from Warsaw and two Jewish families from Hancewicze were shot together on the Piaski tract. The victims were shot in the back of the head. The exact date of this murder operation remains unknown.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Grigoriy Klevets, who was born in 1875 in Hancewicze and lived there during the war years, testified:
In 1942 [sic] I witnessed the Germans shooting death about 100 people from Jewish families, refugees from Warsaw, and two families from Gantsevichi [Hancewicze], the Fishes and the Zaigers. The Germans piled up all those Jews in one grave on the Piaski tract beyond Gantsevichi village. The head of the German authorities […] forced me, an old man, to bury the bodies of those shot. All of the [people] were shot in the back of the head, the bodies were piled up like logs.
GARF, MOSCOW R-7021-90-32 copy YVA M.33 / JM/20017
Peski Tract near Hancewicze
Murder Site
Poland
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