A part of the patients from Choroszcz was taken by the Soviets in
1940 to the hospitals in Soviet Union. As the
director of this hospital wrote in
1945, they were taken in very good conditions, and under cure of the Soviet
doctors and nurses. Some of the patients who stayed in Choroszcz were removed from the hospital and brought to a house which belonged to the local priest.
There the Nazis set up a new hospital.
The Soviets converted the old hospital into barracks for the Red Army.
In
1941 the SS from
Bialystok took over the whole documentation
of the hospital. German doctors released the Polish doctors. The SS ordered to hand over those patients who were housed at peasants' families.
The peasants did not suppose that their charges could be killed by the SS. The SS brought them on horse waggons to a forest near
Nowosiolki and executed them.
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