Murder story of Ostrowiec Jews in the Ostrowiec Area

In late 1941, the Nazis transformed the Ostrowiec Ghetto into a labor camp. During this transformation, they killed most of its Jewish inmates, whom they deemed “useless”. Along with them, the Germans also shot the Jews and non-Jews who had been arrested in the summer for collaborating with the Soviets; many of these arrestees had merely been clerks of the local Soviet administration, and most of them were Jews. However, there may have been two separate murder operations: one targeting the arrestees, and another targeting the “useless” Jews. Be that as it may, both groups of victims were murdered at the same site: east of the town center, near the bank of the Losha River (presently the site of a radio factory).