Murder story of Stanislawow Jews in the Stanisławów Prison Courtyard

Warsaw August 8, 1973 From the testimony of Anna Źakowska (born 1916): …During my imprisonment, I saw thousands of Jewish families, with all their possessions, being herded together in the [prison] courtyard. They were held there for several days without food or water. They were robbed of everything…. Toward the end of my imprisonment, the Jews were shot in the courtyard. Gunfire could be heard, and we, the inmates, were ordered to lie face down on the floor….

Ivano-Frankovsk July 19, 1966 From the testimony of Vladimir Kurilyuk (born 1906): …In 1941-1942, while I worked as a locksmith at the Gestapo garage, I saw, on an almost daily basis, large groups of several hundred Jews – men, women, elderly people, and children – being brought to the prison courtyard. The number of people was usually so large that they were not taken inside the prison, but left to languish in the courtyard, awaiting their fate…. About once or twice a week, large groups of Jews were shot right there in the courtyard, and their bodies were taken to the cemetery at night. When I came to work in the morning, I saw only large puddles of blood. Other Jews washed the blood off the bodies of the trucks and cleaned up the shooting site….

Ivano-Frankovsk July 5, 1966 From the testimony of Nikolai Volosyanka (born 1902): …In 1941, a barn-like brick structure was erected in the Gestapo courtyard near the prison. In the fall and winter of 1941/1942, I saw, on about five separate occasions, large groups of 100-150 Jews, including women and children, being brought to that barn. On the morning of the next day, I came to work at about 8 AM and saw a truck near the barn, surrounded by a reinforced police guard. Several Jews brought the bloodstained bodies of the shot people out of the barn and loaded them onto the vehicle. When the vehicle was filled with bodies, it was covered with a tarpaulin and driven to the cemetery….