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Zabia Jewish Cemetery
Zabia
Jewish cemetery and new burial ground where victims were buried alive.
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... Dashing from house to house with a group of
Ukrainians, Fried] captured more victims slated for a
quick death. Abruptly an idea came to him and he
quietly issued an order to take everyone to the Jewish
cemetery called Zabia, the new burial ground in the
ghetto. Large pits were dug and then Friedl com-
manded all the elderly men, women and young children
to descend into the excavated earth, in keeping with his
diabolical plan. He ordered the Ukrainians to bury the
victims alive. Polish observers recounted afterward that
the earth moved above still-groping hands for many
hours. ...Connected nodes