Testimony of Fr. Edward Orlowski (complet-click): The action of the final killing of the Jews was solely and exclusively the action of the Germans; Poles were forced to assist Germans guarding the barn under threat of loss their lifes. From the testimony of a Jew in a legal case before a regional court in Lomza, it is unequivocally apparent that the Jews were burned in the barn by Germans. At least three Poles were pushed into the barn and burned there, they were pushed by the Germans and burned there along with the Jews."
Intelligenzaktion,
also called „Flurbereiningung“ was a genocidal action of Germany
targeting Polish elites (primarily intelligentsia – teachers, priests,
etc.). It was an early measure of the Generalplan Ost. About 60,000
people were killed as the result of this
operation. ''Intelligenzaktion'' started on September 28th in the
Bydgoszcz region with the mass executions in a village of Tryszczyn.
During 2 weeks German paramilitary Selbstschutz executed over 900
Bydgoszcz citizens-Polish teachers, clergy, Boy Scouts, military and
police officers, clerks, cultural and social organization members. Among
victims were also Jews and local farmers. As a makeshift graves Germans
used Polish trenches along the Brda River banks- the remaining after
Bydgoszcz city defence. Victims were transported from the city prison in
trucks, then led on foot to the trench. Killers shot them individually,
putting a bullet into back of the head.
