On February 18 or 19, 1942, Germans and local auxiliary policemen shot five or six members of the Ushats Jewish family, who lived in the village of Tavezhnya at the time, together with several members of a non-Jewish family from the neighboring village and about a dozen Soviet POWs. This massacre took place in a pit near the collective farm stables in Tavezhnya.

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