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Gorodok Jewish Cemetery

In January 1943 16 Jews who had apparently been hiding in the town were found and shot to death at the Jewish cemetery.

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Yarmolintsy Military Barrack

At the end of October 1942, in the early morning, most of the inmates of the Gorodok ghetto (including Jews from Kuzmin) were driven out of the houses by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and members of the Gendarmerie and collected on the town's square. They were told that they would be sent to Palestine and taken under guard to the military area near the Yarmolintsy railway station, located about 20 kilometers of Gorodok. After the Jews left the town, the local Ukrainian population looted Jewish houses and property. In Yarmolintsy the victims were held for about three days in the former military barrack, that was fenced off with barbed wire, without food or water and some of them committed suicide. After three days the Germans, assisted by the Ukrainian auxiliary police, began to take people out of the barracks to the nearby shooting site. Many people refused to leave the barracks and an armed resistance was put up during which some Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and Germans were killed by the Jews. The Germans suppressed this resistance. There were some who chose to take their own lives rather than be shot to death. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the victims were stripped naked, divided into groups, ordered to lie down in the pit, and then shot to death. Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) Emil Mertes was in charge of this murder operation. Soviet prisoners of war were shot to death and buried at this site as well.

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Sugar Refinery

After the first murder operation 87 Jews, apparently craftsmen and artisans with their families, were left by the Germans in the ghetto. In December 1942, on orders of the Gendarmerie (German rural police), the Ukrainian policemen drove the Jews out of their houses, loaded them onto carts and took them outside of town to the dam located about 2 kilometers from the sugar factory, near Ludvopil village. The victims (about 40 of them were women and children) were forced to strip naked and lie down in the pit. They were shot to death with a sub-machine gun by the Ukrainian auxiliary policeman who was also a translator for the Gendarmerie.

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Yarmolintsy Military Barrack

One night in late October 1942, the Jews were driven out of their houses in the ghetto, loaded onto carts, and taken under guard to the military zone near the Yarmolintsy railway station. There, they were held in the former military barracks, along with Jews from the surrounding towns. Shortly after their arrival, apparently in late October or early November 1942, the Jews of Frampol were shot dead in pits near the railway station. During the murder operation, which was directed by the Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) Emil Mertes, the Jews managed to kill several Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and Germans. Soviet prisoners of war were also shot and buried at this site.

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Yarmolintsy Military Barrack

In late October 1942, on the orders of Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) Emil Mertes, the Jews from Yarmolintsy were taken from the ghetto to the military area near the Yarmolintsy railway station located 4 kilometers southwest of the town. They were put under guard there, without water or food, along with the Jews from neighboring towns, in a three-storey military barrack that was fenced off with barbed wire. According to several testimonies, some committed suicide. After three days the Germans, assisted by Ukrainian auxiliary police, began to take people out of the barracks to nearby pits that had been prepared by the Ukrainian policemen. According to one testimony, a group of Jews put up armed resistance for about three days, during which they killed some Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and Germans. After the resistance was suppressed the Germans and Ukrainian policemen took people in groups of 50 to the edge of the pit and forced them to take off their clothes and lie face down in the pit. The victims were shot to death by the Germans, who were standing on a plank placed over the pit. The shooting operation lasted 3 days. During the shooting some people managed to escape. Soviet prisoners of war were shot to death and buried at this site as well.

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