Murder Story of Antopol Jews at the Chojniki Tract near the Przyszychwosty Cemetery

One chilly October morning murderers in German uniforms and holding rifles appeared in the fields of Antopol. They surrounded the town as if with an iron chain.… By evening the Germans had arrested about 140 males, including some 14-year-old boys. All of them were kept in the Polish school on Pińsk Street… Some non-Jews dug [i.e., were forced to dig] pits, in a grove opposite a nearby village, as graves to bury the victims. The day was over and it was getting dark…. Suddenly we heard trucks approaching the school. The unfortunate ones were taken out [of the school building], loaded onto trucks, and [supposedly] then taken to "a labor camp." But they did not arrive there. We heard the echo of volleys – shots from machine-guns - that put an end to the lives of those who had been taken from their families.... On October 15, 1942… I remember Abramchick's knocking at our window shutter and telling us that the ghetto had been surrounded. At night the [members of the] Judenrat and the Jewish police were rounded up and put into prison.…I was taken to the offices of the gendarmerie and from there to the square from which people were taken to pits to be killed. …A truck arrived there. … The ghetto liquidation lasted for about four days. For four days and nights the predators hunted for the unfortunate Jews with the sole purpose of annihilating them.