Of them 1,500 were murdered in a Kielce suburb, while many of the others are apparently being slaughtered in groups en route to their destination.
In the city of Brest-Litowsk, the report continues, one thousand Jews were “selected” by the Nazi exterminating squads and thrown into the Bug river where they were all drowned. In Pietrokow only 2,600 Jews survived of the 20,000 who resided there. Among those left alive are only 160 women and children. In Czenstochow, where 40,000 Jews lived prior to Nazi occupation of the city, only 2,000 are alive today.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.