On Friday, September 4, 1942, toward evening, Germans and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen surrounded the ghetto of Maniewicze, to which Jews of Trojanow had been brought. The next day, early in the morning, they drove its Jewish inmates – primarily women, children, and elderly people - out of their houses and collected them on the main street of the town. Then they took them to the forest near the village of Czerewacha, to the place called "Horse Graves." Upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were made to strip naked and forced in groups into pits, where they were shot to death by a Kowel rural order police (Gendarmerie) unit and Kowel's German urban police, headed by Fritz Manthei. The chief of the Maniewicze Ukrainian auxiliary police Nikolay Slepchuk and the chief of the Kowel District Ukrainian auxiliary police Fyodor Shabatura also took part in the shooting. Other Ukrainian auxiliary policemen formed a cordon in order to prevent the Jews from escaping from the shooting site. According to the Soviet ChGK document 1,840 victims were shot to death in this murder operation. After the shooting, on a order from the Germans, Ukrainian auxiliary policemen loaded the belongings of the victims onto trucks and took them back to Maniewicze.

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On August 26, 1941, early in the morning, the town was surrounded, apparently by a Gestapo unit and Ukrainian auxiliary police. They arrested 327 Jewish men (or, according to a ChGK document, 375), including some members of the Judenrat, and collected them at the garden of the local clinic. After the Jews had been abused, they were loaded onto trucks and, under the pretext of being taken to work, were taken toward the village of Czerewacha. On their arrival at the wooded area known as Horse Graves, about 1.5 kilometers from Maniewicze, the victims were ordered to get off the trucks and to strip naked. They were shot to death, evidently by members of a Sonderkommando unit of Einsatzgruppe C, in a pit that had been prepared on German orders by residents of Czerewacha village. On Friday, September 4, 1942, toward the evening, some Germans and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen surrounded the ghetto. The next day, early in the morning, they drove its inmates – primarily women, children, and elderly people - out of their houses and collected them on the main street of the town. Then they took them to the forest near the village of Czerewacha, to the same Horse Graves area. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were made to strip naked and forced in groups into pits, where they were shot to death by a Kowel rural order police (Gendarmerie) unit and German urban police from Kowel, headed by Fritz Manthei. The chief of Maniewicze Ukrainian auxiliary police, Nikolay Slepchuk, and the chief of the Kowel District Ukrainian auxiliary police, Fedor Shabatura, also took part in the shooting. Other Ukrainian auxiliary policemen stood guard to prevent the Jews from escaping the shooting site. According to a ChGK document 1,840 Jews were shot to death in this murder operation. After the shooting (by order of the Germans) Ukrainian auxiliary policemen loaded the belongings of the victims onto trucks and took them back to Maniewicze.

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