In early May 1942, the Jews of Belopolye were assembled in a house in the town and locked up there. A unit made up of four German rural policemen and eight Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, who had arrived in Belopolye, took the Jews out of the house to the Polish cemetery, and shot them there. Estimates of the number of victims of this massacre vary widely. The report by the Soviet Extraordinary Commission, which investigated the atrocities committed in Belopolye and the surrounding area shortly after its liberation by the Red Army, cites a figure of seventy victims, while one of the perpetrators of the massacre of Jews in Belopolye gave a much lower figure – 12-15 victims – to his Soviet interrogators.

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