Dated 18 June 1942, this testimony arrives from Tarnów, where atrocity unfolded over the course of three days. What begins in silence — a forced stillness behind locked doors — ends in mass execution, a park filled with kneeling bodies, and a cemetery turned killing ground. In its quiet recounting, the account lays bare a rhythm of violence so structured, it almost resembles order.



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