Murder story of Motol Jews in the Gaich Ravine

The Extermination of the Women All the women, children, and babies were confined in the synagogue and the Polish school near the market square. The windows and doors were shut tight, and they [the victims] suffered from the lack of fresh air to breathe. I would later learn that, originally, the Nazis had no intention of exterminating them, since they had been ordered to focus on the extermination of the men. But a Polish prostitute — a well-known whore — named […] intervened. She invited the German officers and, after entertaining them for some time and praising them for their efforts to cleanse the town of the hated Jews, she expressed her surprise at the fact that the Jewish women were still alive, and encouraged the Germans to pursue their cleansing of the town. In addition to that, on the same day she sent two Poles to Mołodów, where the headquarters of the German high command were located, to lobby for the removal of the despised Jews from the town.… I have learned from survivors that the prostitute […] later bragged of how she had made the Germans exterminate the women, as well, even though the local commanders had no such orders. The two messengers returned with a "permission" to clean the town of the lice-ridden Jews. The two came after midnight, waving the extermination document in her face. No words can convey the agony of the women and children as they were locked in horribly overcrowded spaces at the peak of the summer heat. There is no way to describe the horror that they went through during their last day on Earth. It was so awfully crowded that there was no room to sit down, even for a moment. The children and babies cried incessantly, asking for a little water to revive them. Many of them fainted in the arms of their mothers, who were powerless to help them. All their physical needs had to be taken care of while standing. The stench was suffocating. Their breath and sweat produced so much moisture that the outer walls of the building were as wet as after a heavy rain. Some women wounded themselves and wet the dry lips of their children with their blood. On Sunday morning, at 8 AM, the doors were opened. All the women and children were taken out and assembled in rows. The women arranged themselves by family ties – i.e., mothers and their children, grandchildren, sisters, aunts, and in-laws. The sight of them leaving the house was horrendous. The sunken faces, the disheveled hair, the eyes red from crying and lack of sleep, the buckling knees after the awful time spent standing. The children were panting heavily after the exhausting and suffocating day inside. The murderers led the limping, broken, crushed victims to the shooting site. Upon leaving the city, en route to the village of Kaliły, they were divided into two groups. The first one was led to the area between the hills where horses and animals were buried, while the second one was taken to the village of Zamosze, to the right of the windmill that stood behind the city. There, they were ordered to strip naked, kneel down, and chew the grass. Those who did not obey this order were cruelly whipped. As soon as they were made to kneel, the first bullets fired from the machine guns that were concealed in the area rained down on them. As if in unison, they all gave voice to the great, eternal cry of our people: "Hear, O Israel!" The mothers pressed their children to their breasts and hugged them – and, with their final cry of "One!", a final, terrible silence descended on the area. The Black Gang jumped upon these martyrs, searching for rings and earrings, gold teeth, watches, and other jewelry. They did not spare the dying people, and turned them from side to side in order to see better. Those who still clung to life were killed without mercy.… Many were thrown into the pit alive….