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Murder Story of Chomsk Jews at the Chomsk Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Chomsk
Poland
After the murder of the Jewish men, probably on the very same day, the Jewish women and their children were massacred, too. The victims were taken from their homes and led to a spot behind a hill – apparently, on the outskirts of the town near the Jewish cemetery – where they were shot. The exact number of victims remains unknown.
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Written Testimonies
Joseph Beder, who was born in Chomsk in 1912 and lived there during the war years, testified:
When all the men had been shot, they [the Germans] chased [sic] their wives and children out of their homes and led them to another site behind the hill – the Jews had used it as a place of rest on [the] Sabbaths. There was no pit prepared for them. They simply shot the wives and the children, and buried them under the hill. As I was sitting in the barn, I heard and saw what they did to our brothers and sisters. My heart bled for them. I realized that my entire family had perished. When the pogrom was over, the peasants went over the Jews' houses and looted all of their belongings.
YVA O.3 / 2285
Chomsk
Jewish cemetery
Murder Site
Poland
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