Murder Story of Młynów Jews in Smordwa

… On April 15, 1943 13 [Jews] were brutally killed in the village of Smordwa in the Młynów Region…. These 13 were driven [beforehand] through the village; then they [the Germans] assembled the [local] residents of Smordwa, made [the Jews] dig a pit and shot them to death in front of the [local] people. Among the 13 people killed were three children: 1. Izik Katzman – 6 years old; 2. Mytel Perel – 3 years old; 3. [?] Fishbein – 3 years old....

... On April 15, 1943 the Germans carried out a raid in the 13th section of the Smordwa Forest, where they caught 13 [Jews] who had been hiding from the German monsters. Among these 13 were [found the bodies of] three children of different ages: 1. Izik Katzman – 6 years old; 2. Mytel-Perel- 5 years old; 3. Fishbein – 3 years old. All these 13, including the three children, were taken to the village of Smordwa … they were driven through the village and beaten. After that, in the area of a house of a German, they [the Germans] made [them] dig a pit, close to which [local] residents of Smordwa village had been collected. They [the 13 Jews], including the three little children, were shot to death in front of those people.…