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Murder story of Różana Jews in the Różana Area
Murder Site
Różana Area
Poland
On July 12, 1941, about 1,000 Jewish men from Różana were arrested and locked up (according to some sources, in the town synagogue). The Nazis then selected 15 members of the intelligentsia from among the detainees, took them outside the town, and shot them. Two days later, on July 14, 1941, a group of eighteen Communists, seventeen of them Jews, were also taken out of town and, apparently, shot.
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Written Testimonies
From the testimony of Hanka Szpiler, a Jewish refugee who was born in 1918 in Kałusz and lived in Różana during the war years:
On Saturday, July 12, an anti-Jewish raid took place, and about 1,000 Jewish men were rounded up. The SS carried out a selection and picked some members of the intelligentsia, 15 people in total - including my husband, Julek Kirshtein, and others. They were taken out of town and shot. Two days later, on Monday, July 14, the Germans arrested 18 Communists (17 Jews and one Pole), according to lists that they had drawn up. There were three women in this group. They were all likewise taken away, vanishing without a trace.
YVA M.11 / 339
Różana Area
Murder Site
Poland
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