The inmates of the Wołczyn ghetto were murdered on September 22, 1942 by Germans and the local police force. About 350 Jews from Czarnawczyce village were taken to the Wołczyn ghetto, apparently shortly before that date, and shot together with the local Jews. According to Soviet reports, the total number of the victims was 497. Most of them were elderly people, women, and young children. The ghetto inmates were collected on the pretext of being relocated to the larger ghetto in Wysokie Litewskie. Instead, they were marched to the area of a former gravel pit located 200 meters from the village. There they were forced to strip naked and then, in groups of three-five people, were taken to the edge of two pits that had previously served as garbage pits. A German stood inside the pit and from there fired at the Jews standing at the edge of the pit. When they were shot, the people fell, or sometimes were thrown, into one of the pits. According to testimonies, there were some Jews who refused either to strip naked or to approach the pits. They were beaten and thrown into a pit half dead or shot on the spot and then thrown into the pit. The younger children were shot point blank. Some witnesses testified that the Judenrat members were allowed to wear their coats during the shooting. They were forced to help the Germans throw the dead bodies into the pit, after which they were the last ones to be shot.

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