Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Białystok
Town/county where mass grave is located	Bacieczki
Mass Grave Location	5 pits near the Bacieczki village, by the forest - most bodies exhumed and burned but they left one layer of bodies in one of the pits as evidence
Date of Murder	June-July, 1944
Numer of Victims	1000
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	The next place of work was located near the Bacieczki village, by the forest. We worked there for three or four days. Five pits were unearthed, 15-20m long, 5m wide and 1,5m deep. 500 bodies, mostly women and children, all well-preserved. Other, smaller pits contained 50-100 also well-preserved bodies, so altogether there were around 1,000 bodies. We took advantage of the guards oversight and left one layer of bodies in one of the pits. We were trying to leave some of the bodies behind as we were expecting to survive. We had succeeded in doing that only once before, in Grodno. By leaving them, we wanted to preserve some evidence of the German crimes. In Bacieczki there were mostly bodies of prisoners, Jews in clothes with patches.
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