Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Augustow (Belarusians, Poles, Jews)
Town/county where mass grave is located	Augustow
Mass Grave Location	Mass grave originally 5-6 km from Augustow - bodies exhumed and burned
Date of Murder
Numer of Victims	300-500 each pit - thousands
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	We were taken to Augustów. [...] Every day at 5 in the morning, we were taken in a "death car" to work, 5-6 km away from Augustów [...] Our job was to dig out the bodies of people who executed and buried throughout the German occupation: Jews, Poles, Belarusians and local people. The ditches were 20 meters long, 25 meters wide and deep for 2 meters. We had to dig them out. In each pit there were 300-500, sometimes up to 1,000, people. [...] We were to take them out and burn on specially prepared stakes." [...] We worked like this for 8 weeks, from 2 a.m. till 7 p.m. of the following day, driving from one town to another, including: Augustów, Grodno, Białystok.
Testimony Number	301/21
page in longer testimony	pages 1-2
Date of Testimony	1945
Name of Witness	Szymon Amiel
Current Country	Poland