Murder Story of Wiszniew Jews in Helenowo

... It was on Sunday, a warm summer day. I was passing by the ghetto…. Near the gate, [local] policemen were standing. Apparently, everything was calm. I was going to church.… At 11 a.m. or 12 noon, some Germans who were unfamiliar to us arrived at the ghetto. The ghetto inmates were lined up in rows: men, women with children, elderly people.... Within several minutes they selected about twenty of the Jews and, together with their families, took them out of the ghetto, along Krewska Street to Helianova [sic!]. The owner of the building there had been Ivan Zara, who had been resettled. Machine-guns had been set up around the building.… Five Germans stood near the building. They took the Jews in groups of five to the building and shot them all there. There was a cellar in the house, and they [the Germans] threw into it all those still alive but wounded and also those already dead. Then they changed their method: they … brought them in vehicles, again in groups of five, and took them to the building, where they were ordered to climb on top of the bodies there and then were shot…. By evening, all the Jews had been killed; then they [the executioners] doused the building with gasoline and set it in fire. Those who were still alive and tried to escape from the building were killed....