Murder story of Zyrowice Jews in the Głowsiewicze Forest

In September 1941, I managed to visit a cobbler in the village of Zhirovitsy [Żyrowicze], which lies five kilometers from Głowsiewicze. Before I could reach the forest, I met some boys who told me that there were Germans in Zhirovitsy. They were separating the Poles and Belorussians from the Jews, who were already digging pits in the forest. I came back to my village and recounted this horrific news. My words were corroborated by a medical orderly, who had heard the sound of machine gun fire. He said: "That’s it. They have shot the Jews of Zhirovitsy." This orderly was a refugee from Poland, and he knew what the Germans were doing.… There were 60 Jewish families in Zhirovitsy; the Germans escorted all of them into the forest and shot them in these pits.