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Becalel Frenkl

Becalel Frenkl

Sportsman named among Jews reportedly shot at Pietrasze Field.

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... how callouses on their hands were separated from the rest and freed. The others, members of the intelligentsia and merchants, were detained. They were tortured all night and into the morning. Finally two hundred were loaded onto a truck that headed out of town. From that moment on, every trace of those Jews disappeared. It later became known that these two hundred were shot by the Nazis at Pietrasze Field, approximately two kilometers outside the city in the direction of Waszlykowa. They included: Dr. Jakow Rajfer; Wajnszel, instructor at Druskeniki Gymnasium; Aron Murkis, instructor at Zeligman Gymnasium; the merchant Rotsztejn and his son; Berl Zabludowski, 1161521 Maze, owner of a dairy; Becalel Frenkl, ““Macca- 066" sportsman; Orlowski, instructor at Druskenik1 Gymnasium; Lancberg and others. This tragic mass ...
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