Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

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Where vicitims are from, last know location	Siedlce
Town/county where mass grave is located	Siedlce
Mass Grave Location	The Jewish cemetery
Date of Murder	1941-1944
Numer of Victims	thousands
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	In the period of 1941-1944 mass executions of Jews were taking place in the cemetery. Mainly of captured Jews, who were hiding in various hideouts, in the woods, etc. They were brought here and immediately shot in the cemetery. (...) in 1942 several dozens of people were brought to the cemetery, the SS men gave them five minutes to strip naked and announced that whoever did not make it in time would be executed. Although everyone managed to strip naked in shorter time than five minutes, they were all executed and buried in that cemetery. At the same time about 100 people were brought to that cemetery, including children, women and old people. (...) One day, on that cemetery, after an execution child's screams were heard coming from a mass grave. (...) Thousands of victims murdered during the liquidation of the ghetto in Siedlce and several dozens of people from the hospital in Siedlce, executed by the order of the Commissioner - Fabisch, were buried there as well. In 1943 Nazis brought a transport of Jews, handcuffed in such a way as to allow them to work. Their task was to dig mass graves and to burn corpses. [...] When every person in the hospital was dead, Commissioner Fabisch ordered to transport the bodies to the Jewish cemetery.
Testimony Number	301/5862
page in longer testimony	pages 1 and 3
Date of Testimony	February 10 1960
Name of Witness	Jontel Goldman
Current Country	Poland