Bestial murder of a Jewish family.

This week Pruzhany was shaken by the news of a bestial murder committed in our area on six Jewish souls. On the highway that leads from Pruzhany to Brest, 5 kilometres before Kobryn, in the settlement of Lotshinek right by the road, lived only one Jewish family, the Sokolowskis. On the night from Monday to Tuesday unknown bandits attacked the house and cruelly killed everyone in it with blunt axes. Among the murdered are also a 20-year-old girl from Antopol who happened to be staying as a guest, and an 11-week-old baby, whom the monsters smothered and trampled underfoot. A few days earlier Mr. Sokolowski's mother had left with a 10-year-old child, and so they were saved. The murder is said to have been committed for the purpose of robbery. The police are conducting an energetic investigation and, it is said, are already on the trail of the murderers. The murdered Sokolowski is a brother-in-law of the local resident Mr. Gavriel Schwartz. This Monday Schwartz's 10-year-old girl was supposed to travel to her relatives the Sokolowskis, but she missed the bus and so by a miracle was saved from death. The funeral of the murdered took place on Wednesday in Kobryn.