Richard Pająk

"The mayor called the appropriate authorities, and they led the Jews out into the forest and killed them," says Ryszard Pająk, a member of the Scout underground and Home Army soldier, born in 1928. He recounts the Holocaust in Tarnogród and Królówka. This account includes images of the seizure of former Jewish "property" in the small town, the hiding of Jews after escaping the ghetto, their denunciation and death, and the murder of surviving Jews by Poles in January 1945. We invite you to a series of film interviews produced as part of the […]