The Monument

Last week the monument standing at the site of a mass grave was finally fenced by the owner of the house. The stone monument was erected after the war, in 1945, by Sokolow survivors who lived at that time in Łódź.

"My dear brother, there are no Jews in Sokolow. There is no cemetery, everything is ruined, no sign is remained to the six hundred years of the existence of the Jewish community of Sokolow. In a garden near Nahum Lewin's place are buried in a mass grave hundreds of Jews, a big mass grave. The Germans had no time to exhume them and burn the remains." Shlomo Rotshtejn (Yizkor Book)

"They stayed together with us and through the cracks in the wooden walls looked on Piekna street, on the small empty and looted houses that bears no sign of human life. From here we also saw the still open mass grave where the gendarmes shot the Jews they found. (...) Immediately after the liquidation, after all the Jews were already gassed in the Treblinka gas chambers and shot in the mass graves in the ghetto, the commandant of Treblinka brought Nahum Lewin to a lime pit and shot him there". Simcha Polyakevitch (Yizkor Book)

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