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"On August 30 [1941] Emanuel Ringelblum received information
smuggled out of a labour camp at Osowa, near Chelm. 'There were a
few cases of typhus. The SS men took over, ordered the Jewish
workers (around fifty of them) to line up. Five men dug a
trench-grave behind the line-up, another five were machine-gunned,
then still another five dug and were machine-gunned, etc. Finally
only five or six men were left of the whole camp...'<30>" (Gilbert,
189)
<30> Ringelblum notes, 30 August 1941: Jacob Sloan (editor), Notes
from the Warsaw Ghetto: the Journal of Emanuel Ringelblum, New
York 1958, page 197.
Work Cited
Gilbert, Martin. The Holocaust: A History of the Jews of Europe
during the Second World War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1985
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