Murder Story of Brześć nad Bugiem Jews in Brześć nad Bugiem

According to various documents, either on June 28-29 or on July 10 – 13, 1941, about 5,000 Jewish men (some testimonies say the number included many educated people) were collected on the pretext of being sent to work. In fact, they were taken 3-5 kilometers south of Brześć nad Bugiem to a sandy area (according to some testimonies, next to the railway line), where large trenches had been prepared and where they were all shot from close range, with machine-guns and guns, by German Police Battalion 307 and an SS unit. Some sources identify the location where the Jews were shot as either near the brick factory in Kotelnya village or near the Brześć nad Bugiem - Kobryn road. Some documents state that a number of Jewish women, apparently the wives of the Jewish men who were taken to be the shot, were murdered, either together with their husbands or later the same day, by members of the same SD unit.