Pilgrimage to Poland - Part 7

The next day our positive energy experienced on the March of the Living quickly dissipated as we arrived at the site where an estimated 800 Jewish children are buried in a mass grave in the Zbylitowska Góra Forest.

The gravesite is located deep in the forest on the outskirts of the Polish village of Tarnow, which also once included a sizable Jewish community. The site was only discovered after the war.

According to our guide and my own research, these Jewish children, many of whom were outed by their non-Jewish neighbors, were taken from the town in trucks to an isolated area in the forest. So...