Ponary Diary, 1941-1943 by Sakowicz Kazimierz Arad Yitzhak

Author:Sakowicz, Kazimierz,Arad, Yitzhak [Sakowicz, Kazimierz,Arad, Yitzhak]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300129175
Publisher: YaleUP
Published: 2005-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

43. This sentence is not clear. It seems that this story is about a non-Jewish woman and her child, who mistakenly boarded the train that brought the Jews to Ponary. There she discovered her error and was taken back to Wilno.

At that moment 3 men fall—1 killed, 2 exhausted and psychologically broken by the events—caught and driven to the pit with rifle butts.

At this time, chaotic shooting echoes from the direction of the railway station; with interruptions it suddenly quiets down; only a few individual shots are fired. Aha, a new group of condemned are going to their deaths. Hearing the shots, they understand what is going on and try to escape from the place, straight from the railway cars. Soon afterward, the new group passes through the wire gate, where I see they are carrying 11 people—either wounded or killed trying to escape. Because the murder of the first group is still going on by the pit, on order of a German the condemned are placed face down to the ground to await their “turn.”

When he got off the train, one Jew stuck a knife in the head of a German, who fell to the ground and was taken by car to Wilno. The Lithuanians killed the Jew with rifle butts—that was the second train. In addition to this a second Lithuanian was wounded.

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