Judenrat in Wieliczka, ordered by the Nazi authorities, sent notices telling all the Jews to gather at the sawmill yard in Wieliczka at 6 o'clock in the morning on 28 April 1942 [...] Those who were late and people older than 55 were stopped near the fence and soon loaded onto trucks that had already been waiting there. The youth (Baudienst), ordered by the Nazi thugs, was grabbing people by their heads and legs and throwing human remains onto the trucks [...] in the atmosphere of lamentation and despairing screams, the trucks were going one by one (I counted about 700 people) toward Puszcza Niepołomicka, where the youth was digging mass graves. |