Event · Forced Labor
Forced cremation labor in the Augustow Forests
Prisoners were forced to cremate victims, sift ashes for valuables, and bury the ashes in the Augustow Forests for two weeks.
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... In this way we worked for two weeks in the Augus-
tow Forests. After all the martyrs had been cremated,
we were ordered to sift thorugh the ashes in search of
gold rings, watches, gold teeth and other valuables that
might not have melted in the fire, and to turn them over
to our masters. The ashes themselves were buried 1n a
deep pit, over which trees were planted, in order to
erase any evidence of Nazi savagery. ...Connected nodes