In June-July 1942, most of the ghetto inmates were taken by train to the Bronna Góra railway station, where they were murdered together with the Jews from Drohiczyn and Janow.

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In early July or, according to other sources, on July 25, 1942 the inmates of Ghetto B were taken by force to the market square and from there to the railway station. There the Jews were put into freight cars into which Jews from other places had already been loaded. The victims were taken to the Bronna Góra station. Upon their arrival, they were forced to undress and to take soap and towels with them. From the station they were taken along a narrow road fenced in with barbed wire and with a shooting pit at the end of it. Some testimonies say that there were people who managed to jump over the fence and escape. At the end of the road every Jew was shot when he reached the pit. The shooting lasted for several hours. The number of the victims is estimated as having been between 1,000 and 1,200.

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On July 15, 1942 an SS unit, assisted by German, Ukrainian, and Belarusian policemen, surrounded Ghetto B. The inmates were told they were going to be taken to the ghetto in Białystok. Apparently in order to avoid resistance from young ghetto inmates, the latter were driven to the Błudeń train station by truck, while the rest of the victims were forced to go on foot. Those people who were unable to go on their own were shot on the spot by the police.

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In June or, according to other sources, on July 15, 1942 a train of sixteen cars with Jews from Bereza Kartuska and nearby villages arrived at the Bronna Góra railway station. Upon their arrival, the Jews -- men, women, and children -- were ordered to undress, while the bodies of those victims who had died on the way to the Bronna Góra station were thrown out of the cars. The trains were driven to a branch line next to a former military warehouse located around 300 meters from the station. There six large pits had been dug by residents of nearby villages. The Jewish victims were searched for valuables. Then the naked victims were taken toward the pits, forced to descend into them by ladder, and then to lie face down. As soon as a pit was full, the Jews there were shot to death with sub-machineguns by SS men, assisted by German, Ukrainian, and Belarusian policemen. The number of the victims from Bereza Kartuska who were shot at the Bronna Góra railway station was apparently about 3,200. In September 1942 another train with Jews arrived from the Bereza Kartuska station and, apparently, were shot at the same murder site.

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In October, according to some sources on October 16, 1942 inmates of Ghetto A, guarded by police and Gestapo men, were taken toward Smolarka village, seven kilometers from Bereza Kartuska. Some testimonies report that about 50 non-Jewish Soviet activists were taken along with the Jews. The murder site was located 1-1.5 kilometers from Smolarka village, close to the Moscow-Warsaw road. Five large pits had been prepared in advance; some testimonies report that local residents had been forced to dig them. The victims were taken to the murder site and shot, the men, women, and children together. According to various documents the number of victims was between 1,000 and 2,500.

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The murder murder of some of Drohiczyn's Jews in the vicinity of the Bronna Góra station was carried out in the summer of 1942. Soviet reports date the shooting to June 1942; other testimonies cite the date as July 26. Prior to the operation the inmates of Drohiczyn's Ghetto B were ordered by the Jewish police to proceed to the market place. They were taken to the collection point by German police on horseback. The victims' shoes, clothes, and valuables were taken away. Those Jews who suspected that they were going to be shot and attempted to hide in some houses in Drohiczyn or tried to escape to the forest around the town were caught by the Germans and local Poles and Ukrainians. Some of the Jews were shot on the way. From the market place the people were taken to the train station, then loaded onto train cars and taken to the Bronna Góra station. When the Germans found out that, according to the Judenrat lists, a hundred Jewish men from the ghetto had not shown up at the collection point, they took several hundred Jewish male inmates from Ghetto A, including some members of the Jewish police and of the Judenrat staff, and sent them to the shooting site with the rest of the victims. On the way to the Bronnaya Gora station many Jews died in the train cars due to exhaustion or overcrowding. Those Drohizcyn Jews, as well as Jews from Janów, Horodec, and other places, who arrived at the Bronna Góra station were unloaded from the cars, searched for remaining valuables, and forced to strip naked. Then they were made to descend into a pit located 250 – 300 meters from the main line, and lie facedown. Each group of victims was shot and then another layer was placed on top of them. The total number of Jewish victims from Drohiczyn who were shot near the Bronna Góra station was about 1,700.

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Apparently, in June 1942 some inmates of the Janów Ghetto were taken by train to the Bronna Góra railway station, where they were shot together with Jews from Drohiczyn and Horodec. The exact number of victims is unknown.

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On July 25 (or, according to other sources, in June), 1942, the Jews from Ghetto B were forced out of their homes and marched to the local railway station. There, the Jews were loaded onto trains and sent to the Bronna Góra station, where they were shot together with numerous Jews from different settlements. Estimates of the number of victims of this massacre range from 1,800 to 3,000, depending on the source.

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