On August 12, 1942 several Jewish carpenters from the Dywin ghetto were ordered to nail shut the windows of the carpentry workshop located in the ghetto. As soon as this was done, all the male ghetto inmates were collected at the workshop, while the women and the children were taken to the synagogue. Several dozen local non-Jews were forced to dig a pit 60-70 meters from the carpentry workshop. When the pit was ready, on the following morning, all the Jewish men were forced to strip naked in the workshp and were then taken toward the pit, where they were shot. Some sources say that the people were made to lie facedown in the pit in layers and that a German executioner walked over them and shot them with a sub-machinegun. After the men were shot to death, the women and children were taken from the synagogue to the workshp, where they were forced to stip naked, as the man had been, and then the women and children were shot in the same pit. The number of Jews shot that day was over 1,000. According to some testimonies during the shooting the young children, who were unwilling to approach the pit, were pushed or thrown into it by the Germans. Some documents note that, some time later, local non-Jews were also shot in the same pit.

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