Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

Where vicitims are from, last know location	Będzin
Town/county where mass grave is located	Będzin
Mass Grave Location	The Jewish cemetery on Czeladzka street
Date of Murder	September 9 1939
Numer of Victims
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	In the dusk of 9 September 1939 Wehrmacht Military Forces or Geheime Feldpolizei surrounded the following streets [Kołłątaja, Kościelna, Bóżnicza, Plebańska] forcing the residents to stay at their homes. [...] The synagogue was burnt down. They threw grenades into apartments through the windows. People trying to escape the burning buildings were shot and thrown back into the flames. 14 names were known, but the number of killed was much higher. Charred corpses were buried in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery by Czeladzka street
Testimony Number	301/6089
page in longer testimony	pages 2-3
Date of Testimony	Będzin, 15 August 1946
Name of Witness	Nowak R.
Current Country	Poland