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Murder Story of Kosow Poleski Jews at the Kosów Poleski New Cemetery
Murder Site
Kosów Poleski New Cemetery
Poland
On August 2, 1942, Soviet partisans occupied Kosów Poleski and offered dozens of young Jews the opportunity to join them. The Jewish recruits who turned out to be too old to join the partisans were told to return to Kosów Poleski. The Germans, who had reoccupied the town by then, ordered these Jews to go to the town's New Cemetery and dig graves for themselves. Then, all of the victims were shot, although their exact number remains unknown.
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In his English translation of the Memorial Book of Kosów Poleski, Robert Fritterman wrote:
On one bright sunny day, the partisans came into town and took all of the Jews with them. When they left town, they realized that they had too many people. They told the old people to return to town, and they only took the young ones with them. The German police ordered the ones who returned to the town to go to the new cemetery and dig themselves graves. After that, they killed them all.
Agudat ezrah li-vene Kosov-Polski. Memorial book of Kosow Poleski : "May the Lord avenge their deaths" . [New York] : [R. Fitterman], 2016, pp. 33-34.
Kosów Poleski New Cemetery
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Poland
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