Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Brzesko
Town/county where mass grave is located	Rzezawa
Mass Grave Location	Rzezawa village - bodies reburied in The Jewish cemetery in Brzesko
Date of Murder	15
Numer of Victims	15
Names of Victims Mentioned	7 women 4 men 4 children
Full Testimony	In the summer, the grave in which, according to the local people, bodies of over a dozen of Jews were buried, was unearthed in the presence of the Bochnia county doctor. They were caught by the police of the day while attempting to escape from the Brzesko ghetto to the Bochnia ghetto.[...] In total, 15 corpses were exhumed, including 7 women, 4 men and 4 children. The bodies were not identified (...) All the corpses were in a 1,5 m wide, 1,5 m long and 5 m deep mass grave. They were not arranged in layers, but rather remained in the positions they were in when thrown into the pit. (...) The bodies were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Brzesko.
Testimony Number	301/5689
page in longer testimony	pages 1-2
Date of Testimony	August 10 1946
Name of Witness	Copy of a report on the exhumation of Jewish bodies in Rzezawa village, Bochnia county
Current Country	Poland