On July 15, 1941 an SS unit arrived in Radziwiłłów and arrested, according to a list compiled by local Ukrainian administration, 28 Jews (mainly men and several women) for being allegedly Communist activists. Among arrestees were also some wealthy Jews who had given property to local Ukrainians for safekeeping and were denounced to the Germans by these acquaintances who wanted to lay their hands on the Jewish property. After being detained for a short time, the Jews were given shovels and taken by truck, under the guard of Ukrainian auxiliary police and Gendarmerie (German rural order police) to the forest near the East-Galician city of Brody, located about 8 kilometers to the west of Radziwiłłów. With their arrival to the murder site, the victims were forced to dig a pit in the forest, made to get inside it and shot to death by the members of the SS unit. After the shooting their bodies were covered with earth.

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