According to some Soviet reports, during the final liquidation of the Brody Ghetto on May 20, 1943, a group of fifty Jewish women and children, along with a Pole who had helped them, were burned to death on Dzerzhinsky Street in Brody.
Budnik [first name unknown], the Secretary of the Brody County Commitee of the Communist Party, reports:
…On May 20, 1943, some fifty women and children from among the Jewish population were thrown into the flames and burned to death on Dzerzhinsky Street. Jan Pavlyuk (a Pole), who had brought a piece of bread to the crying children, was burned to death along with them…