In September 1942, on the orders of Deutchman and Scholtz, the heads of the Gendarmerie, the ghetto was surrounded. According to one testimony, the Jews were told that they were going to be taken to another ghetto and ordered to take their personal belongings with them. About 1,500 Jews, mainly women, children, and old people, were lined up in rows of seven, and, under the guard of armed Ukrainian policemen and members of the Gendarmerie, were taken to pits at the Germanovo ravine, located north of the town, near Teperovka village. They were forced to strip naked, lie face down in the pit on top of each other, and then were shot to death in the head with machine-guns. The cries of those victims who were only wounded could be heard from faraway and the earth was heaving for several days. After the shooting local Ukrainian residents looted the Jewish houses and property in the town.

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In late September-October 1942 the Germans shot to death groups of Jews, apparently craftsmen who had been kept in the ghetto, along with those found in hiding, at the Jewish cemetery in Derazhnya. According to a ChGK document, 270 Jews were shot to death.

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