The World Jewish Congress today received a cable from the Polish Jewish Representation in Palestine giving eye-witness accounts of Nazi massacres of Jews in various parts of Poland as related by a small group of men who managed to escape from the Nazis and reach Palestine.
“All Jews in the city of Mikuliczyn were murdered at the end of 1941 during a six week orgy of murder,” the cable said, “593 Jews were killed in three pogroms, 150 were shot and buried in a mass grave; 270 were later killed in the same way and finally the remaining 130. This information was given by an eye witness whose entire family was killed, consisting of his parents, a sister and her child, a brother and his wife and child.
“In the city of Delatyn, all the Jews were killed, among them the heads of the Jewish Council, Mr. Tuerkel and Dr. Scherf. In the city of Nadworna, virtually all the Jews were killed. The head of the Jewish Council, Dr. Schall, committed suicide after his family had been murdered. In Stanislawow, most of the Jewish population was killed during 1941 and buried in mess graves at Sport Place Kasa Oszczerndnosci. There are only 700 Jews left in that city now. The same fate overtook the Jews of Kolomyja Kossow Ruty in Peczenizyn, where the Jews were burned to death.”
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