"On 4 April 1940, I saw about 10 covered German trucks going down the road from Firlej to the barrens. At the time I was leaving my house in a horse-drawn wagon; I returned about three hours later. When I got back I learned from my family and neighbors that gunfire had been heard coming from the barrens, that they had been surrounded by a chain of guard posts, and that a guard had been posted at the yard of each house to prevent people from going out. By the time I returned there was neither gunfire nor guards. Not much later, I saw the same German trucks leave for Radom. I then went to the barrens. The day before I had noticed several freshly dug large holes there. I went to them. They had been filled in and trampled by boots. You could see the marks of their hobnails. Nearby were bone fragments. Later I heard that the Nazis had shot a large group of people from the Chlewiska area."
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Jan Makowski, in Destruction of the Polish Elite, p. 59.
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