On January 21, 1942, on German orders, under the pretext that the local Jews had bombs and planned to destroy the Gendarmerie building, the adult male Jews of the town were collected in the ghetto. After a count had been taken, about 500 men were taken under guard to the local school building. They were made to strip to their underwear and then, under guard by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, were taken in groups of 20-25 to a ditch located 4-5 kilometers south of the town, about 100 meters from the road leading from Teofipol to the town of Bazaliya. Upon their arrival, the victims, while lying on the ground face down, were forced to crawl to the edge of the pit, where they were shot to death in the back of the head by members of a Gendarmerie unit. The next morning, January 22, over 800 women, children, and old people (along with the bodies of those who had been killed while hiding during the round up conducted in the ghetto) were loaded onto sleds and taken under guard by Ukrainian policemen to the same shooting site. A group of young women was taken on foot to the murder site. Near the ditch the victims were forced to strip naked and shot to death by the Gendarmerie unit and some Ukrainian policemen. Many children and nursing babies were thrown into the ditch alive. After the shooting the clothes of the victims were taken by cart to the school building and later sent to Germany. After the murder operation the furniture that was in the Jewish houses was looted by Ukrainian residents to heat the [local] hospital and Gendarmerie buildings. During this time the Ukrainian policemen caught 5 Jewish women who had managed to hide during the shooting of January 22. They were handed over to the Gendarmerie men, who took them to the same ditch and shot them to death. On January 26, 1942, Ukrainian policemen, together with local peasants, covered the bodies of the victims in the ditch with earth.

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