According to the Bialystoker Memorial Book during the October 1949 trial of Bialystok Gestapo Commander Fritz Gustav Friedl he was held responsible for the "liquidation" (deportation to Treblinka) of the Jews in Zabludow on November 2, 1942. On that day the 1,400 Jews left in Zabludow were loaded on the wagons of Polish peasants who were summoned to Zabludow by the Germans for the purpose of transporting it's Jews to the former camp of the Polish 10th Calvary in Bialystok. According to eyewitness testimony when the Zabludow Jews were in Bialystok, "Friedl instructed that their food rations be reduced and he personally shot thirteen members of the Zabludow Judenrat". On November 10th 1942 the Zabludow Jews were taken from the Polish 10th Calvary Camp by train to Treblinka death camp. Almost all were gassed and cremated that very same day. Below is a eyewitness account of the expulsion of the Jews from Zabludow on November 2, 1942.
"We saw that near the barn, across from the factories stood a Gestapo guard, whose job was to prevent escapes. We were lying down in the hay, our teeth were chattering with fear; Velosovich entered secretly and told us that his son-in-law confirmed the rumor about the expulsion. He advised me to join the expelled… later it will be too late…If the Germans found that he was hiding Jews they would shoot him. I begged him to let me stay, at least until I had the opportunity to escape. He had no idea that Yosef Introligator was hiding in the barn too. That night we couldn’t sleep, we listened to the Nazi guard’s steps and conversations. In the morning the villagers’ wagons started to arrive, the expulsion occurred on Monday, November second, 1942. Panicked voices of anxious people were coming out from the factories. Some were running to the Christians to get their children that worked there as shepherds, we were looking through the barn’s holes, we saw everything from our hiding place.
Here they are throwing bundles on the wagons, hearing screams and cries; the Nazis hurried them, "quickly, quickly!" Around everyone there was a ring of Gestapo people, this was the last time I saw everybody. Here is my mom coming out; she cant climb onto the wagon; she is being helped… they are taking out my weak sister and supporting her arms… they are carrying Tilka Rogovski, that just gave birth… The wagons are leaving. I see my father walking near the wagon, leaning on his cane, and under his armpits a tallis and tfillin. Looking back one last time at the barn where I was hiding…"
Quote from Phinia Korovski (New York) Zabludow Memorial Book, Buenos Aires, 1961 Honor Their Memory!
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