Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Zawichost
Town/county where mass grave is located	Zawichost
Mass Grave Location	The Jewish cemetery - Bodies exhumed and burned there
Date of Murder
Numer of Victims
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	Apart from Poles, several Jewish policemen were still in the town, who, when their fellow townspeople left, began their gruesome act. They managed to load the bodies covered with blood onto carts before evening and then transported them to the Jewish cemetery to bury them in a mass grave. When they finished their work, they were taken to Sandomierz. Two weeks later they came back to conduct another horrific burial. Germans [...] discovered a well-camouflaged basement in the Bronfeld's estate, where over 20 Jews had been hiding. They dragged them out [...] and beat to death with bats and rods not firing even a shot. And those massacred corpses were transported to the Jewish cemetery by the Jewish policemen. [...] One day a few cars arrived at the Jewish cemetery in Zawichost and surrounded the Jewish mass grave from every side. German soldiers screened it off and once hidden, began doing something in there. After a few hours, they moved aside and clouds of reeking smoke appeared over the grave. When the wind chased away the smoke, the cars drove off and all that left was an empty, sooted pit.
Testimony Number	301/7069
page in longer testimony	pages 7-8
Date of Testimony	Zawichost
Name of Witness	Michał Starzyk
Current Country	Poland