immediately transported to the labour camps. Over 100 Jews, mostly men,
died at the hands of the murderers.⁵⁸³
Solec⁵⁸⁴ – One day in the week of 19 to 25 April gendarmes entered the home
of the local rabbi, told him to dress in his best clothes, led him to the marketplace
and shot him there.
Kraków region
Mielnik⁵⁸⁵ – Until Monday 23 March the Jewish population in Mielnik lived
quite well. Hardly any Germans were to be seen. No fewer than three thousand
Jews were living in the shtetl.
On Monday 23 March the Jewish population received an order to be ready
immediately for resettlement to the eastern territories of the province. The
Jews thought that the expulsion applied specifically to the Jewish male population.
Therefore most men hid, but to no avail. The whole Jewish population
was expelled, and in the process about 800 Jews – men, among them the
local rabbi with his daughter – were shot dead. The Germans deported more
than 1,200 women and children to Dubienka on the Bug, as well as to other
Jewish settlements in that area.
Warsaw region
Grodzisk Mazowiecki⁵⁸⁶ – All the Jews had already been expelled from Grodzisk
in February 1941. [6] No Jew was allowed to be there. Nonetheless, four Jews
had managed to remain, obviously with no great pleasure. The four Jews were:
two Rozman brothers, 18 and 12 years old, and a brother and a sister (surname
unknown); his name was Moyshe (aged 18), hers was Masha (aged 20).
On Thursday 23 April the Germans caught all four “offenders” – probably
as a result of a Polish tip-off – and shot them in the middle of the marketplace.
ARG I 34 (Ring. I/317)
Description: original, handwritten (LEG*), pencil, Yiddish, 205×288, 6 sheets,
6 pages.
Second copy in HWC, 2/6 (handwritten, pencil, 6 pages).
583 See Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, pp. 630–632.
584 Solec nad Wisłą (Iłża County).
585 Should be: Mielec.
586 Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Sochaczew-Błonie County).
