Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Białystok (Jews, Poles and Soviets)
Town/county where mass grave is located	Dzikie
Mass Grave Location	21 pits near the Dzikie village in the vicinity of the Narew River, close to the road and railway. There was a house nearby. Bodies exhumed and burned
Date of Murder	June, 24 1944
Numer of Victims	5000
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	On 21 June 1944 we returned from Grodno to Białystok. [...] Three days later, they took us to work near the Dzikie village in the vicinity of the Narew River, close to the road and railway. There was a house nearby. We unearthed 21 pits of various sizes. The Gestapo men remembered exactly what bodies were in which pits. One of them was looking for a body of a woman who was supposed to have a wedding ring. 5,000 bodies were unearthed and burnt. Some of them were well-preserved, others in a more advanced state of decomposition. There were people of different nationalities, Christians and Jews, men, women and Soviet prisoners of war. Civilians put crosses on several of those pits. The Germans were laughing at the crosses and, as a joke, ordered one of the Jews to decorate another Jew with a cross.
Testimony Number	301/547
page in longer testimony	page 6
Date of Testimony	Bialystok September 6-7, 1944 (1945?)
Name of Witness	Mojżesz Gerszuni a member of a special kommando responsible for burning the bodies from mass graves in order to cover up the traces
Current Country	Poland