victims, stripped to their shirts, were transported by lorries to the execution site at Piaski Łyczakowskie. The oppressors had one answer to the moaning, crying, and begging: Du hast schon genung Brot gefressen.736 One woman who managed to bribe a German officer and who thus avoided certain death talked about her incredibly horrible experiences. The convicts’ faces were painted black and they were ordered to dance mayufes737 and even sing. The murderers selected a man and woman from among the Jews, handed them rubber clubs and other “murder tools”, and forced them to hit their fellow countrymen. Many people went insane before death or their hair turned grey in a few hours. But the inquisition kept devising more and more sophisticated tortures for its victims. The oppressors prolonged the pre-mortal suffering ad infinitum. Every day at dawn inhabitants of Łyczaków were woken by rifle salvos fired at hundreds of older women and men. Every day the mass grave at Piaski Łyczakowskie took in new victims of the most brutal inquisition in history. But the oppressors were not content with “roundups” on the bridge and streets. They also cruised in closed cars on Jewish streets, going into one Jewish tenement after another [14] and searching the entire building. The fearful crying of children and the rest of the family did not move them. Mothers convulsively squeezed their children in their arms. Devoid of any feelings, Ukrainian policemen brutally separated them, taking fathers and mothers for execution and leaving the children unattended. They did not treat the sick or crippled any better. Many children begged the oppressors to be taken with their parents so that they could die together, but the thugs would not consent to that either and answered the children’s supplicant begging by saying that their time had not come yet. Dr Rappaport was shot on the spot for having risen to his elderly mother’s defence. Jews hid in cellars day and night, not eating, not sleeping, and awaiting their fate. Ominous news came from neighbouring small towns and villages. For instance, in Kamionka Strumiłowa738
