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NO JEWISH CEMETERY.

JEWISH MASS BURIAL SITE: In the church cemetery mass grave with nine others, all murdered by the Germans on Jan. 18, 1945. story: "Konstanty Dolnik, the local undertaker, buried the victims in the cemetery in defiance of German orders to bury them in a forest to erase their memories. Dolnik also recorded the numbers tattooed on their forearms. / In 1948, the town erected a monument with a cross to mark the mass grave. Only the numbers recorded by Dolnik identified the grave's occupants. There were no names...Now, beneath the 1948 monument where there were once only numbers, there is a new memorial plaque with names [April 2013]