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Murder story of Kosow Poleski Jews in the Różana Area
Murder Site
Różana Area
Poland
In late May-early June 1942, about two weeks before the establishment of the ghettos, a small group of Jews from Kosów Poleski made an attempt to escape to Różana. They hired a cart and traveled toward Różana, but a local carter from the Alba Colony (apparently, a settlement in the vicinity of Różana) denounced them to the border police. The Jews were caught and taken to the "New" Colony, another settlement in the Różana area, where they were forced to dig graves for themselves, and were then shot. Apparently, the group consisted of about two dozen individuals.
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In his English translation of the Memorial Book of Kosów Poleski, Robert Fritterman wrote:
About two weeks before the establishment of the ghetto in Kosów..., the following people decided to run away to Różana: Zelda, Peszka, Zajdel with his wife and daughter – from the Ryzykow family, the wife of Icze Biniamines, Herszel Kaliszer, and two more refugee families. They hired a cart and traveled towards Różana, which was under the control of the Third Reich.
The border was at Kolonia Alba. Cwi Kaliszer was about to take a cart, but, because he was asked for a large sum of money, he took another one. When the first coachman, who was from Kolonia Alba, found out, he notified the border police that, at a certain time, some Jews who want to cross the border will be passing by. The border police ambushed them, and, when they caught them, ordered them to go to “New Colony”, which was next to Różana. There, they unloaded them and ordered them to dig their own graves, and ultimately killed them. The name of the gentile from Kolonia Alba was Pawłowski. [He] resided outside the village on a homestead.
Agudat ezrah li-vene Kosov-Polski. Memorial book of Kosow Poleski : "May the Lord avenge their deaths" . [New York] : [R. Fitterman], 2016, pp. 20-22.
Różana Area
Murder Site
Poland
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