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The Chmielnicki Atrocities
In the city of Mogila they slaughtered 800 nobles together with their wives and children as well as 700 Jews, also with wives and children. Some were cut into pieces, others were ordered to dig graves into which Jewish women and children were thrown and buried alive. Jews were given rifles and ordered to kill each other...They surround young women and, as they struggled to escape, cut their clothes from their bodies. Then they performed abominations on them until they died screaming.... They arrived... (disguised) as if they had come with the Poles... in order that he open the gates of the fortress... and they succeeded... and they massacred about 6,000 souls in the town... and they drowned several hundreds in the water and by all kinds of cruel torments. In the synagogue, before the Holy Ark, they slaughtered with butchers' knives... after which they destroyed the synagogue and took out all the Torah books... they tore them up... and they laid them out... for men and animals to trample on... they also made sandals of them... and several other garments".. Some were skinned alive and their flesh was thrown to the dogs; some had their hands and limbs chapped off and their bodies thrown on the highway to be trampled by wagons and crushed by horses; some had wounds inflicted upon them and were then thrown on the street to die a slow death. They tore open women and then whipped them forcing them to crawl to their deaths....others were buried alive. The enemy slaughtered infants in their mothers' laps. They were sliced into pieces like fish....The infants were hung on the breasts of their mothers. Some children were pierced with spears. The anger of God the King of Hosts is not yet appeased... the anger of the hand... of the oppressor... is yet outstretched with swords and spears; they continually invade the land and are prepared for war; wherever they find Jews, they kill them... a great multitude of the empty-headed have gathered with weapons and dressed in coats of mail; a large number of the Kedars [=the Tatars] have joined them and are encamped around them and they say: come let us destroy Israel" The Jews were led to the cemetery...They entered the chapel on the cemetery and were killed there. Afterwards the building was set on fire...The Catholic priests...were skinned alive while the dukes who had been buried for a long time were dug up from their graves and tossed aside.
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