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Murder story of Ostrożec Jews in the Ostrożec Grove
Murder Site
Ostrożec Grove
Poland
One day in August 1941 German Gendarmerie men, assisted by Ukrainian auxiliary police, took several dozen Jewish men of the town, under the pretext of sending them to work near the city of Vinnitsa, and shot them to death in a grove outside Ostrożec.
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From the testimony of Pola [Paula] Shteinsheid (nee Grinstein), who was born in 1925 in Ostrożec and was living there during its German occupation
… The first murder operation took place in August 1941. About 40 Jewish men were required to report "for work." They were taken to a grove outside of town and shot to death. On the way [to the murder site] two Jewish women were found [caught] by accident: Ester Garber and Sonia (I forgot her last name). Although afterward Ukrainian auxiliary policemen said that those people had been sent to work to [the city of] Vinnitsa, local peasants told [us] the truth [that they had all been shot to death]. …
YVA O.3 / 1775
Ostrożec Grove
Murder Site
Poland
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