Murder story of Postawy Jews in the Postawy Ghetto

…The Jews were locked up in a ghetto, and the Germans shot them all in late 1942, both in the ghetto itself (on Brasławska Street and Bazylianska Street) and in the fields near the railway station, in addition to the place where the Jews had been arrested.

…One day in November 1942, at dawn (about 3-4 AM), the Germans surrounded the ghetto, and the mass extermination of the Jews began. While passing through Brasławska Street, I, too, saw the bodies of murdered women and children, both in the street itself and on the fences. One woman had been shot on the roof of a house…. The bodies of the Jews were buried by the Germans in a field adjoining the railway, 250 meters to the west.

In November 1942, under the command of Schmidt, a mass shooting of the Jews in the camp took place. Those who refused to come out were burned alive – thus, my own family of seven was burned, together with 20 other residents. The inmates were forced to run toward a pit that had been dug in advance, and the running Jews were shot with machine guns and automatic weapons…. On Schmidt's orders, the bodies of those shot in the streets and garden plots of the ghetto were dragged down into the pit, with wires looped around their legs and heads, and this was confirmed during the exhumation….