Rusinowo

About three kilometers north of Rypin, lies a small village called Rusinowo, where in a wooded area the Nazis murdered and buried Polish citizens in the autumn 1939. Most of those murdered had been brought to Rusinowo from a prison in Rypin under the control of the Gestapo and Selbschutz (paramilitary units of ethnic Germans). In the prison the prisoners were frequently subjected to interrogation, abuse and torture before they were taken to Rusinowo and shot by Selbschutz units. Exactly how many people shot and buried in Rusinowo is unknown because in August 1944 the Germans opened the mass graves and cremated the victims in an attempt to conceal the crimes. The figure mentioned is about 100.