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I SAW THIS WITH MY OWN EYES
By Masha Rubyovitsh (Astik)
With my own eyes I saw the great calamity that
befell my shtetl, and I want to put some of this on
paper.
My family lived on Shkolne Street, near the
Rizhin.er shtibl. Our neighbors were the families
of Aron Gershenberg and Gelibter. During the
war I was in Luboml.
After the Germans entered the town on
Wednesday, June 25, 1941, they set fire to most
of the town and our house burned down. We then
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moved in with my aunt Malke Ginzburg, wife of
Falik Ginzburg, who lived in the Rynek (market).
We lived there until the ghetto was liquidated.
When the Germans occupied the town, they
ordered every Jew to wear a white armband with
a blue star of David. Even children 12 years of age
and up had to wear them. A week after the
occupation, the Germans gathered all the Jewish
men in the marketplace, selected five, and
shot them behind Jagiello Hill. The murdered