The Horse Adjutant Chapter Five Poor Tarnow
Like clockwork, the deportation from Grybow began Thursday the 20th of August 1942, just as my friend foretold. The Jews were assembled downtown next to the bathhouse, not far from the slaughterhouse. Young and old, husbands and wives, all the Jews were gathered and the Gestapo was out in force. Once assembled the crowd was addressed, “Anyone who cannot walk will be taken by trucks. Anyone capable of walking will begin to head to Nowy-Sacz.” I should have said almost everyone assembled because there was at least one person who did not -- the mentally disturbed Rachel Griebel, who lived in my house. When she was called to assemble with the rest, she remained, holding her four cats. Two troopers doing a security sweep entered my home and tried to pull the cats away from her, but the cats attacked with claws and hissing. With little hesitation, the troopers brought her outside with the cats and shot them all on the spot, About 365 of the Jews who could not make the walk were instead loaded on trucks. My heart sinks when I tell you they were not taken to Nowy-Sacz, but only about 3 kilometers to Biała Niżna, near the road to Grodek, next to the ancient monastery that also made the flour, and, just as the Mol brothers feared, to the large ditch that was dug the day before by the Hitler Youth.
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