Edward Smolarczyk
Class 4
Bobrza, 12 October 1946
My memories of German crimes
The most important event in our area happened on 26 May 1943. That night the Germans came to the village in cars and surrounded the house of Jan Suchenia in Podglinie. They took the father and his five sons and drove them to the forest. They shot a woman and a child in the apartment and then burned the house and outbuildings.
They arrested many men in Mniów and also brought them to the forest. Then they drove them all into one solitary house and set it on fire. Two men escaped through a window, but the Germans shot them. The house burned down. Only the walls of the chimney remained, and the charred corpses were propped against them. The Germans left, and then people began to gather to identify their loved ones. Crowds visited this place for several days in a row and grieved over the terrible harm that befell the Polish nation. We will never forget this incident.