According to the Soviet sources the first murder operaton against the Jewsih men of Hancewicze was carried out on July 5, 1941, while the German documents claim it to happen on August 12, 1941. The Soviet reports say the Jewish men were collected on the pretext of being sent to work. The German documents report that all the Jews were collected and then the men were separated from the women and the children proir to be taken to the shooting. The men were taken to the forest seven, or, according to other testimonies, ten kilometers away from Hancewicze in the direction to Chotynicze village and shot there. Apparently the same event is mentioned in other Soviet testimonies that say the Jewish men's bodies were hidden in the forest in the Podlinka tract. Both versions state that the bodies of the victims were hidden in the forest after the shooting so that the rest of the population was not aware of the event. The reported number of these Jews killed ranges from 300 to 350.

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According to various documents the second operaion against the Jewish men of Hancewicze was carried out soon after the first one. Some testimonies say the victims were shot at the former market place, while the other ones define the murder site as the area one kilometer away from the town. The number of the shot men varies from 600 to 1,000.

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In 1941 at least two groups of Jews were murdered by the Germans on the territory of the tar-processing plant in Hancewicze. The first group consisted of 100 people, while the second one numbered 150. Among the victims were apparently men, women, and children. The Germans finished off those who were still alive with pistols. After the massacre local residents were forced to bury the bodies.\

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Some testimonies report that groups of Hancewicze Jews of various ages were shot in the forest outside the town in the area of the Yasinskaya clearing [Polanca Jasińskiego]. This way, in August 1941 a group of 70 Jews was shot at that site. Local residents had to bury the bodies after the shootings.

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According to the Soviet documents the Hancewicze Jewish women and the children of some of them infants, were shot near a hay storage location in the village. The German documents identify the murder site as area near the sawmill located one kilometer away from the village. Apparently the shooting of the women and the children was carried out around the same time as the one of the Jewsih men. Prior to the shooting the women were told to take with them 15 kilograms of their possessions, apparently to deceive them into believing they were going to be relocated. The victims were shot with bullets in the back of the head. Local residents who were forced to bury the bodies were not able to identify them.

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Some testimonies report that about 100 Jewish refugees from Warsaw and two Jewish families from Hancewicze were shot together on the Piaski tract. The victims were shot in the back of the head. The exact date of this murder operation remains unknown.

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