Murder story of Pruzana Jews in the Linowo Area

One day, while performing the jobs that the Germans required, they [a group of Jews from the Prużana Ghetto] were told to dig trenches. My brother was responsible for this. They were a group of thirty or sixty people, I cannot tell the exact number. So they went there, and my bother went along. They started digging, and I do not know how long it took them, possibly a week or two. He asked the Germans: “Are you preparing it for the ghetto liquidation?” The German told him: “No, it is not for you; it is not for the Jews.” There was not much to be done about it, so they kept working. Some German was responsible for it; it was he who told them how to dig and make those trenches. One day, when they showed up for work, they were unexpectedly told to walk about a hundred meters away; it was an order from the Germans. Huge trucks arrived, of a type not previously seen in Prużana. They were covered with canvas, making it impossible to see what was inside. The Germans were sitting in the back [row]. The trucks approached the trenches, and an order was given to throw [the people] into the trenches. And how come the people in Prużana failed to see it? These people did not see the trucks driving around and raising their bodies. My brother was in this group. The truck turned around, as though it were loaded with gravel or coarse sand. It threw its human cargo out, and the people fell into the trench. Then the shooting began. They fired into the trenches with machine guns. My brother returned, feeling utterly broken. This had taken place outside the ghetto, about 5-6 kilometers from Prużana, between Prużana and Linowo [in the original: Lime]. Who covered the bodies? Those were prisoners brought over from the German jail, regardless of their crime. Some of them were thieves, while others had simply refused to hand over a cow or a pig to the Germans.