Shortly after occupying Frampol, the Germans arrested ten prominent local Jewish men, including the town's rabbi. The occupiers used these men as hostages, to force the Jews to hand over all their valuables. The Jews were told that, if the ransom was not paid by the next day, the hostages would be hanged. Since the Jews were unable to pay such a large sum, the hostages were hanged publicly from the balcony of the only two-storey house in the town. This was done upon the orders of the local commandant. Several other local Jews, who began to curse the Nazis, were shot dead on the spot. Only several days later were the Jews permitted to take the bodies of the victims down and bury them at the town's Jewish cemetery.

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