Event · Murder
Mass murder at the ghetto cemetery
Elderly and ill Jews were shot and buried in pits at the cemetery.
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... At the same time, a second group of Nazi officers
pulled the elderly and ill out of line, shoving them onto
wagons heading for the ghetto cemetery. There the Jew-
ish firemen, under orders from Friedl, had excavated a
large number of pits. Many groups of several hundred
Jews were brought to the cemetery on the wagons;
Fried! would arrive, issuing instructions for the elderly
and ill Jews to be pushed to the edge of the pits. He
would then fire his gun, which signaled other Nazi sol-
diers to open a barrage of gunfire. The victims, riddled
with bullets, fell into the pit. Those who were still alive
were pushed into the mass grave, which was imme-
diately covered with earth. ...Connected nodes