On May 8, 1942 about 2,500 (one source gives the exaggerated figure of 3,500) Jews were collected at the former machine-tractor station in Dunayevtsy (where a prisoner of war camp had been located). The sick and old people who could not make their way to the collection point, as well as those who had been found hiding, were shot to death in their homes. At the collection point a selection was carried out – the young people, as well as skilled workers, were left alive; the rest – mainly women, children, and the elderly - were taken, guarded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and members of the German gendarmerie, to the site of the former phosphorus mine near Demyankovtsy village. On their way to the mine those who were slow were beaten or shot to death. Those Jews who arrived at the site were forced to strip naked. Those who refused were beaten by the gendarmes and policemen, or shot to death by Gebeitskommisar (regional commissar) Eduard Eggers, who was in charge of the execution. Then, in groups of 15-50, the remaining victims were made to climb the hill where the mine was located. When all the Jews were forced into the mine, the Germans blew it up by setting off explosives in three places near the entrance, thus burying the people alive. The clothes of the victims were collected and taken away by the policemen. According to one testimony, several Jews managed to escape through an underground passage. After discovering this, the Germans placed guards at the site and closed the hole. For several days the crying and moaning of people dying in the mine were heard in the area.

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In late February 1942 a group of Jewish men was working at the Dunayevtsy train station. On Saturday the head of the station, the Volkdeutsch Theo Sherer (or, according to another testimony, Osvald Krauze), released them and sent them home. However, the Germans regarded their leaving work as sabotage and on Sunday they were imprisoned. In the first days of March 1942, following a German order, the 19 Jewish detainees were taken from the prison to the local police station and, under German and Ukrainian guard, were then taken to Pervomayskaya Street (Bazarnaya Square), the town's central street, to be hanged publicly on telegraph poles. The site had been surrounded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and several German guards. Gebietskommissar Eduard Eggers, who was in charge of the operation, was present. Each of the 19 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen who had been chosen for this assignment hanged one person. During the hanging one of the victims tried to escape but was shot to death and then his body was hanged. A Jew who lived near the execution site and tried to observe the hanging was shot to death by a Ukrainian policeman. Only after several days did the Germans allow the Jews to take the bodies down from the gallows and bury them.

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Early in the morning of October 19, 1942, during the liquidation of the Dunayevtsy ghetto, about 2,000 Jews, including some from the nearby village of Minkovtsy and other places, were collected at the former machine-tractor station that was surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by policemen. Those who did not show up or went into hiding were found and taken to the same collection point. Many Jews knew what was awaiting them since several days before they had heard and seen local residents digging pits outside the town. Then, guarded by armed Ukrainian policemen and German gendarmes, headed by Gebietskommissar Eggers, who commanded this murder operation, the Jews were marched on foot in two groups to the Solonichnik forest, near Chankov village, located about 3 kilometers west of the town. The sick people and those who could not walk were beaten or shot to death. The area of the shooting site was surrounded by Ukrainian policemen in order to prevent the Jews from escaping. The victims were made to strip naked and, in groups of 5-20, were taken to the pits, where they had to lie face down, and were then shot to death with sub-machine guns by Gestapo men, members of the gendarmerie, and Ukrainian policemen. According to testimonies, many children were thrown into the pits alive by the policemen and then shot to death. During the shooting, when it was his turn to be shot, Shike Goren, one of the leaders of the local Jewish community, tried to strangle a Gestapo man to avenge the murder of his wife and daughter, but he was killed. After the shooting the bodies were lightly covered with earth. After the war, among the remaining Jews of Dunayevtsy, Goren's act helped create a myth of mass Jewish heroism and resistance to the Nazis.

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