Event · Deportation
Selection and removal from Pietrasze Field
Gestapo forces removed approximately 3,000 people from Pietrasze Field for slave labor; the evidence does not establish Friedl as organizer of this removal.
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... The Gestapo officers made their way through the
lines of Jews, carrying long canes with u-shaped han-
dles. The Nazis used these canes to collar the younger
and stronger Jews, hooking the handles around their
necks and pulling them out of line for slave labor.
Many of those selected resisted, for they did not wish to
leave their wives and children. They were beaten over
the head with the canes and were forced to go with the
Gestapo anyway. In the next four hours, some 3,000
people were removed from Pietrasze Field, including
several hundred young women. ...Connected nodes