Murder Story of Młynów Jews at the Młynów Airfield

1. In July 1941 … Schneider, the head of the German [civil] administration of the Młynów area mobilized the [Jewish] residents of the town of Młynów and the village [town] of Murawica for [forced] labor at the airfield, where [these residents] were beaten by German soldiers with [rifle] butts. On July 5, 1941 600 [Jews] were working at the airfield. German officers, under the pretext that the [Jewish] workers at the airfield had cut a telephone cable there, … selected and shot to death 18 men (3 others were buried alive): [those shot included] 1. David Lister – 23 years old; 2. Boris Mezidner – 28 years old; and 3. Moisei Kumt – 19 years old. After the exhumation of the bodies, and also according to the testimony of an eyewitness of this shooting, [Boris] Geller, it was established that [the victims] were shot to death with single shots in the head from pistols and a machine-gun. …

… On the second day of the German occupation, the Germans drove all the residents of Młynów, mainly its Jewish population, to [forced] labor at the airfield of the town of Młynów, to fill the craters left by the [German] bombardment. Besides the residents of Młynów, all the Jewish residents of the village of Murawica were [also] driven out and were also working at the airfield. I cannot say exactly, but around July 5, 1941, the Germans drove about 600 people [i.e. Jews] to work at the airfield. During the work German soldiers beat the people and, on that day, a German car with officers arrived at the airfield and [accidently] cut the telephone cable. Afterward, the German soldiers beat all the [Jewish] workers and at the end of the work they shot 18 [Jews] to death. I was made to cover them [their bodies] over. 3 of them were still alive. They [the Germans] shot with a machine-gun and pistols. I know that the following persons were shot to death: 1. David Lister – 23 years old; Boris Mezidner – 28 years old; 3. Moisei Kumt – 19 years old; 4. David Geltsmann – 14 years old. And there were others, all residents of the town of Młynów.…

... I don't remember on what date, but in August 1941 the Germans took Jews to work at the Młynów airfield. At that time I was [living] in [the village of] Murawica … the German Gestapo arrived in Murawica with dogs [and] took all the Jews [of the village], women and men [to Młynów]; on the way they were beaten with [rifle] butts and whips. They [the Germans] set the dogs on the people. One of the dogs took my hand in her teeth and bit my hand … . Afterward, when everyone, approximately 200 of them, had been collected, they were all lined up in the town of Młynów and taken under guard to the airfield half a kilometer from the town of Młynów. There they [the Jews] were made to fill the pits …. German soldiers photographed us all several times [working] near the pits. When we were finishing our work in the evening, German soldiers shot those working Jews with machine-guns. That is how on that day the Germans shot to death 18 [Jews], namely: 1. Baruch Lichter – 24 years old, a resident of Murawica village …; 2. Berko Litsman – 25 years old, a resident of Murawica, … ; 3. Moshko Kulish – 14 years old, a resident of the town of Młynów; 4. Srul Upstein - 13 years old, a resident of the town of Młynów; 5. Moshko Upstein – 12 years old – a student and a resident of the town of Młynów; 6. Baruch Shtener – 17 years old, a resident of Murawica village. Before the shooting the Germans beat them 18 with sticks and [rifle] butts and, then, shot them to death. …

… two or three days after the arrival [of the Germans] in the Młynów area, the Germans began to take only Jews to work at the airfield of the town of Młynów, despite the age [of the workers]… . On the first day, when [the Jews] had finished working, before my eyes the Germans shot to death 8 [sic, for 18] Jewish men under the pretext that they had cut the field telephone cable while, in fact, a German driver had cut the cable. …