One day, apparently in August 1942, about 150 Jewish residents of Chocieszów (mainly women, children, and elderly people) were taken to a barn, where they were kept for 24 hours under the guard of Ukrainian auxiliary police. Afterward, with the arrival in the town of a Ukrainian auxiliary police unit from the town of Ratno and, apparently, the chief of the Ratno Gendarmerie (German rural order police), the Jews were taken out of the barn and divided into two groups. The first group, of several dozen Jews, was taken under guard by Ukrainian policemen to the animal burial ground (located north of town), where all of them were forced into a pit and shot to death.

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After the first group of Jews had been taken to be shot at the animal burial grave, the second group, guarded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, was taken several hundred meters from a barn to the area of the former brick factory. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were made to strip naked and taken in groups to a pit, where they had to lie facedown. Then they were shot to death in the back of the head with a machine-gun and pistols by Ukrainian policemen, headed by the chief of the Chociezów Ukrainian auxiliary police Petr Makovetsky. After the shooting the bodies of the victims were covered over with earth.

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