In the evening of July 12, 1942, around 10 PM, the electric spotlights that had been erected in and around the ghetto by Soviet POWs were switched on. The ghetto was surrounded by a force made up of the 1st Company of the 33rd Reserve Police Battalion, the 320th Police Battalion, units of the German Security Police under the command of SD men, and members of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police. The policemen went from house to house and drove all the people into the street. Those inmates who tried to resist were shot on the spot. Dr. Bergmann, the head of the Judenrat, and another Judenrat member, Leon Sukharchuk, committed suicide around this time, so as not to assist the German authorities in the killing of Jews. The policemen herded the victims to a vacant plot of land in the ghetto, where the Germans separated the men from the women and the children. Then, throughout the night, the Jews were taken to the railway station near Belaia Street and forced into freight cars. On July 13, the trains transported the Jews in the direction of the town of Kostopol, some 35 kilometers north of Równe, to a place known as "Janowa Dolina." There, at a granite quarry, the victims were marched in rows to the edge of pits that had been dug in advance and shot with machine guns by the German Security Police and Ukrainian auxiliary police units. During the liquidation of the Równe Ghetto, a few dozen Jews managed to hide with Hermann Graebe's help. From Beck, the chief of staff of the Gebietskommissar, Graebe had obtained a document stating that the Jewish workers of the Jung company (a total of 100 people) were not subject to the murder operation. During that night, he protected the house in which the Jewish workers were staying from invasion by the Ukrainian police and the SS. When the murder operation was over, he sent the Jewish workers to the nearby town of Zdołbunów.

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