STEIN BROTHERS

Prepared by Adriana Lerman and Avi Borenstein

"The leaders of our [partisan] fighting unit were two Stein brothers from
Ostrowiec. Both of them were killed in June 1944 during the talks with
the boss [leader] of the workers’ party from Ostrowiec. His name was
Rybowski, alias Wujo [Uncle], and he was a Pole. They met to discuss
the question of an escape attempt from the camp.

[They planned an escape from the labor camp in Częstocice where they
were locked up along with the rest of the Ostrowiec slave laborers who
worked at "Zaklady" steel factory and the German Jaeger's brick
factory.]

And then one Jew named Blumental, a capo from Ostrowiec, informed
on them to the Germans, who immediately apprehended them, and the
Stein brothers were executed by a firing squad two days later"

Wolf Fajnsztadt Testimony (301/945) -Above text from archive of Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Holocaust Survivor Testimonies (coll. 301), . Original in Polish. https://early-testimony.ehri-project.eu/document/EHRI-ET-ZIH3010945

[All the prisoners were forced to watch. for them to see what would happen to them if they continued with the intention of continuing with the escape plans.The execution order was given by Captain Raymond Anton Zwierzyna ]

 

Below is Google translation of a page blog of Wojtek Mazan discussing a book on the topic.

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