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Testimony by a Survivor from Ostrów Mazowiecka

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SUROWICZ, Mojsze, born in 1874 in Ostrów Maz.
Residence before the war: Ostrów
Residence during the war: Soviet Union

When Nazis entered, almost every Jew moved to the Soviet Union (border was only 7 km from Ostrow). They crossed the border gradually, some disguised as Polish peasants. Only the elderly, the sick and several single women were left in Ostrów - more than 600 people.

Germans gathered them all near the brewery (there was only one brewery at the time in Ostrów) and forced them to dig a big hole, jump into it and shot them all. After that Germans forced Polish people to bury this hole. That's what Jews living in Bialystok heard from Poles.

Signed by M. Surowicz and S. Sikora (recording clerk)

Lodz
Feb. 23, 1948

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