Apparently, as early as 1942 a group of 60 Jewish men were taken away to be shot in the vicinity of the Dichka grazing area. The larger-scale murder operation took place in October 1943, when the surviving inmates of the Czarnawczyce Ghetto – mostly women, but also a few men – were taken to the shooting site on a tractor with a deck. A dozen non-Jewish residents of Czarnawczyce were ordered to dig a pit in the grazing area known as Dichka, which lay in the direction of the Kamenetskoye road. The victims were driven to the site in two groups. The first group consisted of women and one child. Prior to the shooting, the victims were forced to strip naked, and their clothes were piled next to the shooting pits. When the first group had been shot, the second one – including the remaining women and seven men – was transported to the site in the same way. During the shooting, the victims were ordered to descend into the pit and lie down in rows, with their heads toward its center. According to some testimonies, the victims were Jews from the village of Domaczevo.

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In 1942, approximately 200 Jews from Czarnawczyce were murdered near the village of Turna Mała, which lay two kilometers from Czarnawczyce. The pit that had been prepared for the shooting was not large enough to accommodate all the bodies, so local residents had to dig another one and rebury the victims in it. The exact date of the shooting is unknown.

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