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Where vicitims are from, last know location Bialystok
Town/county where mass grave is located Bialystok
Mass Grave Location Bialystock - bodies exhumed and burned
Date of Murder
Numer of Victims 300-500 each pit - thousands
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony We were taken to Augustów. [...] Every day at 5 in the morning, we were taken in a "death car" to work, 5-6 km away from Augustów [...] Our job was to dig out the bodies of people who executed and buried throughout the German occupation: Jews, Poles, Belarusians and local people. The ditches were 20 meters long, 25 meters wide and deep for 2 meters. We had to dig them out. In each pit there were 300-500, sometimes up to 1,000, people. [...] We were to take them out and burn on specially prepared stakes." [...] We worked like this for 8 weeks, from 2 a.m. till 7 p.m. of the following day, driving from one town to another, including: Augustów, Grodno, Białystok.
Testimony Number 301/21
page in longer testimony pages 1-2
Date of Testimony 1945
Name of Witness Szymon Amiel
Current Country Poland