Followed by a description of mass murder in the town of Vysokoye:
Third: the German invaders committed mass executions in the of Vysokoye.
The bulk of the inhabitants of the city, before the arrival of the Germans, were Jews. With the advent of the Nazis all the Jewish population, over 3,600 people, were driven into the ghetto in the same town.
Part of that population about 320 people, was shot on location in Vysokoye. The mass graves of the fallen are near the synagogue at a distance of several tens of meters, the remaining in single and small groups of graves in different locations around the town.
And mass deportation:
The surviving portion of the Jewish population was taken by the Germans in the direction of the city of Bialystok.
Notes: Other sources tell us those Jews were marched to the rail station to the north of Vysokoye, forced into railroad boxcars, and shipped to the extermination camp of Treblinka. At that time, before the end of the war, the committee may simply have not known the fate of the remaining population, though they certainly could have guessed.
A modern view of the probable burial pit site.
This material is from Page 2 of 5 of the original, in handwritten Russian. |
