Murder story of Ostrowiec Jews in the Forest in the Kamenka Farm 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 regarded as “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, rather than ideological communists, and most of them were Jews. Both groups of victims were murdered at the same sites: in a forest near the Kamenka farm, not far from the Gudogaj railway station, three kilometers south of the town center; and east of the town center, on the bank of the Losha River.