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Przesławicze Camp

On September 1, 1942 most of Poryck's Jews, mainly women and children, were taken from the ghetto to a camp (near the village of Przesławicze) that was surrounded with barbed wire, about 3 kilometers from the town. On the way to the camp the Ukrainian policemen beat them and stabbed them with bayonets, killing anyone who fell down. At this camp the Jews were held for three days in the open air without food or drink and were brutally beaten and abused by the Ukrainian guards. About 300 Jews, including many infants, died under these conditions or were shot in the camp during the process of abuse.

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Poryck Forest

In late August or early September 1941 a German unit took 100 Jewish men, women, and children from Poryck and shot them to death in the forest about a kilometer and a half from the town.

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Hospital in Poryck

On September 1, (or according to the ChGK document in July) 1942, early in the morning, Ukrainian auxiliary police, under the supervision of the German Gendarmerie (rural order police), surrounded the ghetto. The Ukrainian auxiliary policemen burst in and drove the Jews onto the street. Those Jews who had been admitted to the hospital were shot to death by Ukrainian policemen.

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Kuczkow Farmstead

On September 4, 1942, early in the morning, a Gestapo unit from Włodzimierz Wołyński arrived at the Przesławicze camp. Members of the Gendarmerie (rural order police) joined them. On an order from the Gestapo, the Gendarmerie, assisted by the chief of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, Pasalski, took the Jews, (including many women and children) in groups of 200-300 to the Kuczków farmstead (located about a kilometer south of Przesławicze), where pits had been prepared. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were made to strip naked and forced into the pit in small groups and made to lie there face down. Along with the members of the Gestapo and the Gendarmerie, Pasalski and his assistant Mojch themselves shot Jews. According to one testimony, small children were bayoneted and thrown into the pit first in front of their parents' eyes. The shooting lasted until the afternoon. After the shooting, following a German order, local residents of Przesławicze and Kuczków covered over the pits with earth in order to erase all traces of the crime. The agricultural commandant of the town of Poryck, Schtimler, was personally in charge of this murder operation.

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