On July 18, 1941, the Germans ordered the Jewish men from 16 to 60 years old to report to the center of town on the pretext that they would be registered. After about 400 Jews had been assembled, they were surrounded by Gestapo men and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and taken to the former Catholic Monastery that served as a German headquarters. There a selection took place: those with useful skills were put to one side, while the larger group was attacked with dogs, beaten, and then shot to death by members of the Security Police and an SD murder squad and members of the Gendarmerie (German rural order police) behind the monastery. After the murder the families of the victims were told by the Germans that their dear ones had been sent away to work. A month later, about 300 Jewish young women were arrested and shot to death at the same place.

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