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Murder Story of Kobryn Jews in Patryki
Murder Site
Patriki
Poland
The first murder operation against the Jews of Kobryń seems to have been carried out in July 1941. Young Jewish men were arrested in the streets of the town and assembled in the square on the pretext of being sent to work. In fact, they were taken to the area of the village of Patryki and shot there. Estimates of the number of victims range from 80 to 200. Some testimonies indicate that the rest of the Jews of Kobryń remained ignorant of the massacre for a certain period of time.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
Georgi (Gedalya) Bil, who was born in 1925 in Kobryń and lived there during the war years, testifies:
A month or two [after the beginning of the occupation], SS units came to Kobryń and arrested some 80 young [Jewish] men. They assembled these men in the local square, telling them that they would be taken to some camp for work. After the war, I visited a Pole…, and he told me that he used to live near that place during the war. He said that there was a human hand with fingers sticking out of the ground there. He went to the town mayor – a Pole, not a German – and said that an epidemic may break out there. The mayor told him to take some soil and spread it over the site, since it was a grave. As long as the Germans were still there, those Jews did not return, so the people thought that they had been killed. The rumors [about this] spread after about a month. My other uncle worked in road maintenance not far from that place. He said that they had heard 80-100 rifle shots from there.
YVA O.3 / 11412
Patriki
Murder Site
Poland
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