On one day around September 19, 1942 the Germans announced that the Jews had to prepare for an evacuation to a place where they would work for the Third Reich. The Jewish civilians had to appear at no. 28 Stalin Street, the location of the headquarters of the German forces and the Jews were allowed to bring a maximum of 32 kilograms of food and possessions with them. Approximately 300 people gathered at the headquarters. After several hours, dark buses arrived. After the Jews were forced to abandon their belongings, they realized that they were going to be murdered. They started to cry and to weep, but to no avail. Ukrainian and local police forces took the Jews to buses, which drove to an anti-tank trench northwest of the village, at the Kuma railroad station. At first they killed the children, who were thrown alive into the pit. The older teenagers and adults, along with the elderly people, were lined up. All the perpetrators, the Germans, the Ukrainians, and the local police forces, shot them to death. According to the reports of witnesses, some parents who were wounded and fell into the trench held tight to their children and were buried alive with them.

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