Marszałek – Krościenko

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Edward Seredyński – Stefkowa
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I’m Seredyński Edward from Stefkowa. During the Jewish exterminations, there were seven families in Stefkowa which were rounded up by the Germans in an old manor house on the other side. At the moment we are in the spot where the Jews were massacred. The Germans brought all the families here and the Jews were shot and buried here in a mass grave. That was actually on the other side of the manor in a field belonging to the manor’s owner; it was fenced off by a high wooden wall and was surrounded by a military police cordon, the German army, and that’s where they killed them. Now it’s privately owned; it was allocated to residents of Stefkowa. Me and a friend, who now lives in the West, we went to see what was going on, but they chased us away. I only heard shots; there were always two. It looked as if they were firing from a machine gun and then they would fire individual shots from a pistol if someone was still alive.

This is the fourth in a series of photographs and interviews by Andrzej Kramarz from his exhibition, "A Piece of Land", at Camelot Gallery in Krakow (Poland) from November 15th to December 28th, 2009. HI Art Magazine will be featuring more excerpts from this exhibition in future issues.