On August 19, 1943 the ghetto was surrounded by the SS and the local police. The resistance cell attempted to fight back, killing or wounding some Germans and collaborators. The Germans shelled the ghetto with artillery and called in an airstrike. The planes (or only a single plane, according to other sources) that appeared over Glębokie, flying at low altitude, poured incendiaries on the town and set it on fire. Glębokie turned into one huge conflagration. Most of the Jews were either burned to death in their shelters or killed by the Nazis on the spot. A few inmates managed to escape from the ghetto on the night of August 19-20.

More information: Yad Vashem