Murder Story of Antopol Jews in the Area of the Bronna Gora Railway Station

It was in the early summer of 1942. The murderers rounded up those in Ghetto B. They wanted to take 1,000 people from there. All those who were rounded up were taken to the market square. The children and the old people were taken like a flock of sheep to the collection point and from there everyone was taken to the train station. There was a train of freight cars awaiting them at the station. Jews from Pinsk, Janowa, and Drohiczyn had been already loaded onto it. The Jews from Antopol were also confined inside. Horrible scenes took place – there was screaming, weeping, and pleading. Later we learned what had taken place there. At Bronna Góra mass graves had been prepared among the hills covered with pine trees. The freight cars were opened one after the other and the people were thrown into the graves. The murderers shot them non-stop with machine-guns.

…On the next morning [July 25, 1942], all the Jews, about 1,200 of them, were taken to the market square. At 11 a.m. the Jews were lined up and taken to the railway station. Some people tried to escape, but within ten minutes the market place was full of corpses. A train with the Jews from Drohiczyn was already waiting at the station. The Antopol Jews were also loaded onto the train. When the train arrived [in the area of Bronnaya Gora] they [the Jews] were ordered to undress and to take soap and towels with them. They were formed into rows and taken to the woods. There was a barbed wire fence along a path. The path was so narrow that only one person could pass along it at a time. The path led to a pit. One after the other, the people were taken toward the pit and shot. Some of them succeeded in jumping over the fence. It lasted from 10 [a.m.] to 4 [p.m.], when the massacre was over. Approximately 1,200 Jews were killed on that day.