On July 22 or 23, 1942, Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, headed by the SD and the Gendarmerie, rounded up some 100 Jews from Studenitsa and took them by truck, under guard, to a field near the village of Grushka, some 2 kilometers northwest of Staraya Ushitsa. They arrived there toward the end of the shooting of the residents of Staraya Ushitsa. Two pits had been dug in the area beforehand by local residents. The Jews were forced to strip naked. Those who refused were severely beaten by the gendarmes and policemen. After being lined up at the edge of the pit, the victims were forced to enter it in groups of five and lie face down, whereupon they were shot dead with machine guns by members of the German SD and Gendarmerie. Many children were thrown into the pit alive. After the shooting, local peasants were forced to cover the pits with earth.

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