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Franciszka P., born in 1927: "My father was a soltys [village head]. One night the gendarmes came and ordered him to lead them to Iwanki. They came in two trucks. There was a barn. They surrounded the barn. There they found two Jewish families of 9 people. The Jews had to dig their own pit. Unimaginable things happened there. They were forced to undress. The Germans collected 9 bags of clothes! After, the Germans shot them all". [Testimony N°YIU419P, interviewed in Janki, on March 22, 2015]
"Janki - a Jewish family of 9 was shot in Autumn 1941 [locality of Iwanki] 3 km from the bus stop, a Jewish family of 3 was shot in Autumn 1942 500 meters from the bus stop [locality of Janki]."[Report cards filled out by scouts documenting places of combat or martyrdom during the WWII in the Hrubieszów County; IPN GK 195/VIII/7, pp. 67 – 67 rev.]
Iwanki is a locality within the village of Nowosiółki, located in Hrubieszów County in eastern Poland. It lies about 18 km (11 miles) west of Horodło, on the Ukrainian border, 10 km (6 miles) from the county capital of Hrubieszów, and 100 km (62 miles) southeast of the regional capital, Lublin.
According to a local witness interviewed by Yahad, there were no Jewish residents in Iwanki before the war. However, a significant Jewish community thrived in the nearby town of Hrubieszów.
In early October 1939, following a brief occupation by the Soviet army, the locality of Iwanki fell under German control. The area was governed by the German gendarmerie stationed in the neighboring village of Teratyn.
In the fall of 1941, the Teratyn gendarmes perpetrated a mass shooting of nine Jews in Iwanki. The farm where two families were likely hiding was surrounded by gendarmes at night. The victims were forced to dig their own graves and undress, and their clothes were confiscated by the gendarmes. They were then shot with machine guns. The sołtys [village head] of the nearby village of Janki witnessed the execution. The pit was subsequently filled in by two villagers who were on guard duty that night.
The killing site is located in a private field and is not commemorated.
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