In fall 1942, the Ukrainian police and German Gendarmerie caught 152 surviving Jews from Deraźne, mainly women with children, who had been hiding. They were all taken in groups, under guard by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, to the Bechalskiy Forest, 4 kilometers north of Deraźne. Upon arriving at the murder site, the Jews saw three mass graves that had been dug there by local residents. The victims were forced to strip naked and led to the pit in small groups. They had to lie face down in the pit, and were then shot with automatic weapons. The ChGK document indicates that some of the victims were killed with rifle butts, while others were buried alive. According to a testimony, two further shootings of Jews took place at this site. Kulik, the Landwirte (senior German official of Deraźne), was in charge of the murder operation.

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