Mass Grave Database - Based On Early Testemonies

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Where vicitims are from, last know location	Krakow (Jews from Liszki, Czernichów, Krzeszowice, Tenczyn and Nowa Góa)
Town/county where mass grave is located	Tyniec
Mass Grave Location	a forest in Tyniec village, about 4km on the way back towards the Vistula River, 30m into the woods. 3 Layers each covered with lime
Date of Murder	July 8, 1942
Numer of Victims	140
Names of Victims Mentioned
Full Testimony	First bigger action of "Judenvernichtungskommando" in the vicinity of Krakow was a murder of 140 Jews in a forest in Tyniec on 8 July 1942. The victims were taken from families, which on that day were out of the Krakow ghetto on the basis of the Krakow's Kreishauptman's, named Schneider, disposition allowing Jews with assigned duties to stay in a given town. About 50 families from Liszki, Czernichów, Krzeszowice, Tenczyn and Nowa Góra collective municipalities belonging to Landkomsariat Kressendorf [Krzeszowice], [...] Sixteen carts - 16 families managed to drive off when an order came to stop everyone and immediately after that two trucks with Sonderdienst [Special Services] platoon arrived. This platoon was responsible for selection. The old, sick and grey-haired (regardless of age) were taken from each cart. 140 people altogether. Gradually, they were transported to a forest in Tyniec village, about 4km on the way back towards the Vistula River. Then, they were unloaded at the edge of the forest and herded 30m into the woods towards the graves, repaired two weeks before by local constriction workers. 15 people from the Sonderdienst platoon conducted the execution. Drunk and, judging by their dilated pupils, drugged, they were shooting with revolvers. The construction workers were covering the layers of dead bodies and injured people with lime. Three layers of bodies were in each grave.
Testimony Number	301/584
page in longer testimony	page 1
Date of Testimony	Krakow 1945
Name of Witness	Zofia Hrad
Current Country	Poland