According to the testimonies of Holocaust survivors Gersh Karpen and Matilda Gelernter, in early 1943 – apparently, during the final liquidation of the Stanisławów Ghetto – Jewish children from an orphanage in the ghetto area were loaded onto trucks and driven to the bank of the Bystrytsia River, north of the city (nowadays, as a result of urban growth, this river flows through the city). Near the place known as the Gogol Mill, the children were unloaded and thrown into the river to drown. This massacre was apparently perpetrated by German security policemen.

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From the testimony of Matilda Gelernter (born 1908):

…In the summer of 1943, after my arrival in Bólechow, I heard from some Ukrainians who had been to Stanisławów that several hundred Jewish children had been seized, loaded onto vehicles like so many rocks, and taken to a bridge over the Bystrytsia. There, the Gestapo men swung them into the river, trying to see who could throw further, and who could throw more [of the children], amid general laughter and merriment. The children disappeared in the stormy waters of the river….

ZIH, WARSAW 301/2578 copy YVA M.49 / 2578

Bystrytsia River

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