Detention and shooting of twenty children

... Later on, I was placed in a separate cell bearing the sign “‘solitary confinement.” In that extremely narrow place, it was impossible to sit or lie down. I had to stand the entire time, remaining on my feet throughout the long night. The next day I was taken out half naked into the prison yard in the biting wind and bitter cold. I thought I had reached the end of my rope. But I did not notice some forty other Jews, who had been seized by the Nazis from their cellars, attics and bunkers. Appar- ently we were still considered fit for labor and we were once again thrown back into our cells. In addition, there were twenty children who were detained for sev- eral days and then shot. Among them were: a six-year- old boy, Awrom Najman’s son; Nochum Karpl’s ten-year-old; one or two children belonging to the Lipiec brothers from Grodno. We, the forty slave laborers, remained alive. The following were their names: ...