Murder story of Budslaw Jews in the Budsław Area

In 1941, they came in. In 1942, they denounced some of our Jews as communists. They entered their homes at night and took them out of the town. The Germans then killed the communists. It was at that moment that we finally became afraid.... There, they began to execute Jews. And we kept thinking: it won't affect us, it won't affect us. We could not believe that such a thing was possible. They came one night, surrounded the houses, and told everybody to come to the market square. It was an empty plot of land near the church, and all the Jews were assembled there. In the early hours of the morning, they began to take us out of the city. I am one of twins. Two of my brothers escaped through the window, as did my father. My elder brother and I, the two survivors, followed this group. We came out of the city and were about to leave it; there was a large ditch there. My brother grabbed my sleeve, and we fell into the ditch. The Germans who were leading the group failed to notice our disappearance. Mother went on with the rest of them. They were taken out of town, and we could hear gunfire. There, [the Nazis] liquidated them all.… We lay in the ditch, waiting for the column to march away. We were near a forest, so we fled there.