Event · Murder
Jechiel Gurwicz was murdered
Jechiel Gurwicz was murdered because he was Jewish; the inscription's date is explicitly noted as possibly incorrect.
Page scan 5381944-01-23MEDIUM confidence
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... The second message was engraved in Yiddish and
Polish: ‘‘Jechiel Gurwicz was murdered January 23,
1944, because he was a Jew.”’ [The date appears to be
incorrect. ] ...Connected nodes