At dawn on 15 May 1943, the German gendarmerie and Gestapo set up a cordon around the village of Por\u0119ba-Koc\u0119by and began a manhunt for Jews in the nearby forest. One was found hiding in a bunker several hundred meters from the farms belonging to two Polish families: the Leszczy\u0144skis and the Prusi\u0144skis. The Poles had been carrying food to the Jew in hiding, and had sheltered him in a basement or a barn in winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Germans lured Antoni Prusi\u0144ski out of hiding by beating his wife and setting fire to his farm. They also arrested Piotr Leszczy\u0144ski and the Jew who had been hiding in the bunker in the forest. All three men were taken deep into the forest, viciously beaten with sticks and then shot. Piotr and Antoni left behind a total of seven children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The men were buried where they had been murdered. J\u00f3zefa Prusi\u0144ska, Antoni’s widow, carved a small cross into a nearby pine tree. It was only after the war that the victims’ remains were moved to the local cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1424","miejsce","type-miejsce","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wystawazpi.instytutpileckiego.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/miejsce\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wystawazpi.instytutpileckiego.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/miejsce"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wystawazpi.instytutpileckiego.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/miejsce"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wystawazpi.instytutpileckiego.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}