In August or September (according to various sources) 1942, officers of the Security Police of Stanisławów came to the Jewish hospital on Długa Street, in the northern section of the ghetto. The incurably ill and bedridden patients (or all the patients, according to some testimonies) were taken out into the hospital courtyard and shot dead. According to some testimonies, this massacre claimed the lives not only of the patients, but also of the entire hospital staff.

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From the testimony of Julian Baczewicz (born 1914):

Several days later [in August 1942], the Jewish epidemic hospital in Stanisławów was liquidated. It happened simultaneously with the murder operation in the ghetto. All the patients were taken out, in their underwear, to the clearing in front of the hospital, where all of them were shot, [together with] the entire hospital staff – doctors, paramedics, and nurses….

ZIH, WARSAW 301/4026 copy YVA M.49 / 4026

From the testimony of Sala Hermann (born 1908):

…On that day, I stayed overnight at the hospital, together with my mother and younger brother. In the morning, Brandt and another Gestapo man arrived with a list and ordered [the staff] to hand over all the sick. The nurse, the director, and the doctors had to bring the patients out to the lawn in front of the hospital, all by themselves. There, the patients were lined up, and each of them was shot through the neck, falling face down on the ground…. There were forty-three victims – men, women, [and] children….

ZIH, WARSAW 301/3258 copy YVA M.49 / 3258

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