Genowefa Kołodziej
Class 4a
Niewachlów, 10 November 1946
What do the mass graves tell us?
When the German hordes entered and flooded Polish lands, Poles became powerless and defenseless. They had no strength to resist the terrible German onslaught. At every step [the Germans] took revenge on Poles. Many graves and crosses are left from the time of their rule. The murdered Poles are buried in these graves; many men, women, even children. These graves testify to German atrocities, they show how they tortured us and how many Poles perished as a result. In Niewachlów, there is a mass grave of five murdered Poles near the forest, and single graves are everywhere – in the field, by the road, near the bridge (of a Jew) and in the forest.