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Murder Story of Aleksandrja Jews at the Jewish Cemetery in Aleksandrja
Murder Site
Aleksandria Jewish Cemetery
Poland
Three weeks after the mass killing of Aleksandria's Jews on September 23, 1942, Karl Heifler, a landwirt (agricultural leader) of Aleksandria ordered to post notices across the town calling all those who hid themselves in all the region to return home, since no harm would be done to those who would return. About 85 hiding Jews returned to Aleksandria. On October 28, 1942 they all were taken by Germans to the pit that had been prepared at the Jewish cemetery and shot there by a German unit. The victims were buried at the site.
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From the diary of Shalom Golani, who was born in 1923 and who lived in Aleksandria during the war years:
October 28 [1942]
One night [Germans] collected the remaining Jews [who returned to the town after the mass murder in Svyattya Forest] in Aleksandria, amounting 50 people, took them to the [before] prepared pit at the Jewish cemetery of Aleksandria and killed them there. ….
Nathan Livneh and Shemu'el Israeli, eds.: Book of remembrance of the community of Alexandrija (Vaad yotsei Aleksandria b'yisrael, Tel Aviv, 1972) p. 223 (Hebrew).
Aleksandria Jewish Cemetery
Murder Site
Poland
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