Bialystok 16th day of February in the year 1946
sygn. 301/1473
Statement of Dr. Tobiasz Cytron, Bialystok physician,who worked in the ghetto hospital at the time of the final liquidation of the Bialystok ghetto. He was transported to Blizyn, then to Auschwitz, where he survived to see the liberation. He currently resides in Silesia at a place called Cieszcze Puszcze.
On Friday, 28 horse-drawn
wagons pulled up at the hospital. All patients lying ill in bed
were taken away brutally. Frieder was shouting. Drs. Etresuk,
Gertosoftofk, and Czeski, from the gynecology ward, were throwing
Ukrainians on a wagon. The wagons with the ill left for Zabia,
where the people were executed. Drs. Sokolowski, Madaliw, and
Adamowicz were sent away to a factory that made cardboard containers.
Frieder ordered the remaining doctors to make the hospital spotless,
threatening they would be shot if he finds any mess.
On this very same Friday,
the assembling crowds had begun to form a so-called little ghetto
which extended from several houses along Narrow Street up to
Krutman’s house. From the square next to this young ghetto,
they were sent to Pietrasze, where all deported Jews were being
gathered. There were approximately 1,250 children, further along
there was Juderland with Bararz, Commander of the Police, as
well as approximately 400 people who had the task to clean up
completely anything left behind in the factories. Dr. Cytron
added his supposition that this task was merely a ruse to draw
out those who were still in hiding.
A clever SS Untersturmfuhrer came to the hospital on that day. He conducted extended conversations with them. These included his saying the humanitarian method being applied, involving no pain, was a boon to civilization. Asked about details, he declined to elaborate. He also knew the Hebrew language children who were led back from Pietrasze to the ghetto ostensibly to send them on to Switzerland. In reality they were being sent to Theresienstadt, in Czechoslovakia, where they were kept in over-crowded isolation for a prolonged period. Contact with these children was forbidden, anyone who disobeyed was executed. It was said that there were negotiations to exchange these children for Germans interned abroad, but they fell apart. Fact is these children were transported to Auschwitz and gassed. The children were accompanied the entire time by Dr. Katznelson, orderly Pedzioch and Derenstejn, Bylinowa’s successor.
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