On the 7th or 8th day since the action had begun, she noticed a group of several dozens Jewish men, women and children (about 70 people). As she learnt later, they were taken from the shelter at Czysta Street [...] Two young Jews, who managed to escape [...] were watching those executions from the shelter in the attic at 3 Kosynierska Street, located next to the pit on the cemetery at Żabia Street, where the executions were taking place. They were shooting people in groups of five. People were told to lay down, face to the ground. The SS officers sat down at the edge of the pit and watched the execution as if it was a show. The person shooting from a machine gun was Firedel, an executioner from the Białystok ghetto. |