At the end of July (or, according to one report, in August) 1942, early in the morning, the ghetto of Zofjowka was surrounded by Gendarmerie (German rural order police) men and Ukrainian auxiliary police. The evening before a group of able-bodied young Jewish men who had been held outside the ghetto was taken to dig several large pits outside the town. The Jews were driven from their houses and ordered to assemble and to take with them food packages for several days since they were supposedly going to be sent to work in the city of Łuck. Men, and mainly women, children, and elderly people, were loaded in groups onto trucks and taken, under the guard of Ukrainian auxiliary police, to a field near Jaromiel village. Zechariah Antwerg, the head of the Judenrat, and his family, headed the group of those who were taken on foot to the murder site. Upon their arrival, the victims were made to strip naked and forced into the pits, where they were shot to death with machine-guns by a Gendarmerie murder squad. After the shooting the valuables and clothing of the victims were taken by Ukrainian and German policemen.

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On the morning of September 21, 1942, on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the remaining Jews in Zofjowka who had been held there or found in hiding were surrounded by Ukrainian policemen. Some Jews who had fled to the forest during the first murder operation had returned just the previous day to the town to be with their families on this holy day. These several hundred Jews (mainly women, children, old people, and some tanners) were taken by truck to the nearby Kiwerce Forest, where all of them were shot to death by a German unit in pits that had been prepared ahead of time. During the shooting some young people managed to escape.

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At the end of July (or, according to one report, in August) 1942, early in the morning the ghetto of Zofjowka was surrounded by Gendarmerie (German rural order police) and Ukrainian auxiliary police. The evening before a group of able-bodied young Jewish men, who had been held outside the ghetto, was taken to dig several large pits outside of town. The Jews were driven from their houses and ordered to assemble and to take with them food packages for several days, since they were supposedly being sent to work in the city of Łuck. Men, and mainly women, children, and elderly people, were loaded in groups onto trucks and taken, under the guard of Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, to a field near Jaromiel village. Upon their arrival, the victims were made to strip naked and forced into the pit, where they were shot to death with machine-guns by a Gendarmerie murder squad. After the shooting the valuables and clothes of the victims were taken by Ukrainian and German policemen.

More information: Yad Vashem