Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Zareby Koscielne
Town/county where mass grave is located	Czyzew
Mass Grave Location	On the way to a town with a Jewish Ghetto 12 km from Czyzew - Near the school
Date of Murder	Fall 1941
Numer of Victims
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	Sometime in the fall of 1941, Germans issued an order telling Jews to load their belongings onto carts or carry on their backs. They announced a march out to the Jewish ghetto in a town situated 12 km away from Czyżew. On the way, they herded the Jews into a school. Pits left after an artillery were located near the school. Once in a while, the Germans would take 10 people, lead them to those pits, read out the sentence saying they are charged with opposing the war and because of that they must be punished. (...) They executed 10 people at a time. The villagers who were transporting Jews' baggage in carts were ordered by the Germans to fill in the mass graves. Those freshly filled graves were moving, because underneath all that dirt there were still alive people.
Testimony Number	301/6558
page in longer testimony	page 6
Date of Testimony	October 29 1971
Name of Witness	Aron Lerman
Current Country	Poland