Jan Mazur
Class 6
Suskowola, 29 November 1946
What do the mass graves tell us?
For many centuries, the Germans were the cruel enemies of Poland. They made various unfounded claims. Finally, in 1939, they occupied Poland and, having a well-organized army, wanted to conquer all of Europe. When the Nazi troops entered Poland, our soldiers fought bravely against the enemy. Numerous soldiers from both sides died at the time. There was no one to take care of the Polish victims, so the local residents buried them in their own fields, as the Germans forbade the creation of special cemeteries.
Over the course of six years, the occupiers killed, slaughtered, and deported the better- educated Poles for hard labor. The Germans drove them to places where they lined them up and shot them, and then buried them in a single pit.
Only after the Germans had been driven away from our country did our people take care of the graves of the unknown victims. They dug up the corpses from the fields and moved them to the church cemeteries. When we pass by these graves, we realize that these people died a heroic death, defending our homeland against the Germans.