Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

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Where vicitims are from, last know location	Parczew (Jews from Kalisz, Kielce and Katowice)
Town/county where mass grave is located	Juliopol
Mass Grave Location
Date of Murder	mid- August 1942
Numer of Victims	400
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	4 February 1940. Stadtverwaltung [city council] informed the Jewish community that 670 Jewish prisoners were being transported from Lublin to Biała Podlaska through Parczew. Social Services were ordered to prepare food for them. 340 people arrived on January 7. Jews found out that 200 prisoners were shot in Juliopol (a German colony 7km away from Parczew) and the rest on the way. They were staying in Juliopol for the night. At night, groups of 20 people were selected, taken to a nearby forest and shot there. Others, seeing what was coming, did not want to go out, they were fighting the Germans. Some of the Germans got their fingers bitten off, others got injured. In the end, the Jews succumbed to the violence. [...] After long negotiations, the Jewish community in Parczew managed to obtain a permit allowing them to transport the 200 bodies of people shot in Juliopol and bury them in the cemetery in Parczew. Transportation of such a number of bodies, officers and volunteers among others, had a great impact on both the Jewish and Polish community. It took 8 days to bury them, though only 2 days were permitted. The ground was frozen and it was hard to dig; it was also necessary to find any distinguishing marks on the bodies to inform the family as few of them had documents on them. They were mostly people from Kalisz, Kielce and Katowice. Buried in four rows of 50 people.
Testimony Number	301/608
page in longer testimony	page 3
Date of Testimony	Krakow July 28, 1945
Name of Witness	Nuchem Perlman
Current Country	Poland