Post by whitehorse on Nov 25, 2019 10:47:13 GMT
On the night of November 22-23, 1939, drunken members of the Selbschultze formation led by Harry Schulz brutally murdered almost all prisoners in a makeshift internment camp located in the monastery of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Holy Family in Górka Klasztorna near Łobżenica (36 Jews and 7 Poles) in German occupied Poland. Selbschultze spared only the artist-sculptor Jan Topor, who, due to his skills, was useful to them for sculpting Nazi symbols. We know from the survivor's testimony that before their death, the prisoners were brutally tortured and women were additionally raped. Jewish girls were ordered to strip naked and run around the garden in the light of flashlights. Embittered dogs were used against them. Each of the Jewish girls was later shot. The torturers invented a particularly cruel death for Anna Jaworska: They brought Jews and Anna Jaworska. They tied strong ropes to her legs, and ordered two groups of Jews, five in each, to pull in opposite directions. Selbschultz said they would release them it they do that. The woman asked to save her life because she has small children. She screamed loudly. I remembered her last words: "Jesus, Mary, what are you doing with me!" Schulz urged Jews. When the entrails flowed out of the torn woman, he kicked those shreds of the bloody body along with the ropes down. Jews were shot immediately afterwards - Jan Topor testified. The remaining convicts were taken to the mass grave with fives and shot. After the murder of all prisoners, Selbschultze ordered Topor to bury the mass grave, level it and mask it with leaves.
Photo: Members of Łobżenicki Selbstschutz. Sixth from the left is Harry Schulz.