25 September 1939In September 1939, when they entered Dynów in Galicia, there was an SS vehicle that was called Tod den Juden. They travelled from place to place, from town to town; and they murdered and burnt Jews. The details were told by a person who saw everything. In Dynów, they also killed several hundred Jews. The remaining Jews were all chased out. There remained only one Jew there: an American citizen. Following these frightful acts, the head of the Jewish community of Sanok, a very energetic and respected person who did a lot for the surrounding towns, decided to bury the Jews who had been murdered in Dynów. He only received permission several months later.
When they dug up the martyrs, a frightful sight presented itself. The victims had clasped their hands tightly together, and it was impossible to separate them. An interesting [point] is that they found a note on one body which read: "I am about to die and my name is such and such, and I ask that I am given a Jewish burial."
Text: An account of the mass slaughter of several hundred Jews at the hands of German forces in Dynów, after September 1939. It was accompanied by a note handwritten by Hersz Wasser in Yiddish that read, translated, “Anonymous”.
Identifier: ARG I 729