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Drawing illustrating an excerpt from Hanna Krall's reportage "Wyjątkowo długa linia" (Warsaw 2010 ), entitled. "Shanty". It describes the moment of the death of Moshe Mordechai, the last rabbi from the village of Turzysko, which the artist depicted in another illustration from this series - MPOLIN-M1197. Here, however, Wójcik showed the process of taking the Jewish population to the Krępiec Forest in order to execute them. According to witnesses, the Nazis drove people to the forest near the village of Krępiec, located near Lublin, in trucks to the prepared pits - graves - and carried out mass executions. The first of these took place on 3 May 1940, and the largest intensification took place in 1942, in connection with the liquidation of the Jewish community of Lublin. At that time the gas chambers in the Majdanek camp were not yet ready, so it was in the Krępiec Forest that the Germans executed groups of several hundred prisoners suffering from typhus. These were mainly Polish, Slovakian, Czech, and German Jews. When the capacity of the camp's crematorium was too low in 1942 and 1943, the Germans built incineration grates in the Krępiec Forest. The bodies of those murdered in the gas chambers, as well as the corpses of those killed in on-site executions, were burned on the vehicle chassis. MBK