Murder Story of Parafianów Jews at the Railway Line in Parafianów

…At 6 AM on May 30, 1942, 40 Germans arrived in the small town of Parafianovo [Parafianów] in a truck; they surrounded the “ghetto,” which housed 250 people of the Jewish nationality. One of these Germans, who was probably their commander, summoned the chief of the ghetto, the Jew Katz, and ordered him to gather the Jews residing in the ghetto, who were to be transported to Dokshitsy [Dokszyce]. The Jews were to take all the necessary belongings with them and assemble at the appointed place. It was then that the German officer ordered his men to surround all of them and escort them to the club [building]. Having herded all the Jews into the building, the Germans set a guard on them. Half an hour later, Ebeling, the deputy Gebietskommissar of Glębokie, arrived in a car and ordered the men to “get to work.” At his order, they forced the Jews to undress.The people were taken out of the club in groups of five and stripped to their underwear. In the doorway of the club… stood Germans with rubber truncheons. They beat the Jews, so that blood streamed down their bodies. Afterward, the Jews were escorted to the railroad, where a pit had been dug. On the way from the club to the pit, the Germans continued to beat them with rubber truncheons. The mass of Jews being led toward the pit included children, women, and elderly people. When they had reached the pit, the Germans ordered the Jews to sit down on its edge. This was their preferred method of execution. However, many Jews attempted to run away, so the killers began to take the Jews [to the edge] in groups of four, and shoot them with machine guns. They threw the children into the pit after smashing their skulls with the butts of the guns. During the execution, one six-year-old boy, whom the Germans were pushing toward the pit, threw a clod of earth at them; three Germans literally tore him apart with their bare hands. One woman was merely wounded in the arm, and the Germans ordered those working for them [the grave diggers] to throw her into the pit alive. When the workers refused, the Germans themselves finished her off with kicks of their boots.… A total of 250 people of Jewish nationality, I don't know their names, were shot by the Germans on that day....