On the morning of August 22, 1942, on the Sabbath day, the ghetto was surrounded by a Gendarmerie unit and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen. Shortly beforehand, after receiving a warning about the imminent liquidation of the ghetto, a number of Jews managed to escape to the forests or went into hiding. The Ukrainian policemen drove the Jews out of their houses and ordered everyone to gather at the town's market square. After appearing at the collection point, the Jews – mainly women, children, and old people - were loaded onto trucks and, under the guard of members of the Gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliary police, were taken to the abandoned sand quarry near Kopaczewka village, located about 3 kilometers southwest of the town. Several groups of mainly young Jews who had been performing forced labor in the surrounding localities were taken to the site as well; according to one testimony some managed to escape on the way there. The day before several hundred local residents from surrounding villages were made to dig a mass grave at the site. According to one testimony, upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were ordered to strip naked and forced in groups of 20 into the pit, where they had to lie face down. Then they were shot to death with machine-guns in the back of the head by members of the Security Police and an SD murder squad who, according to the same testimony, were drunk. After the shooting several local residents covered the pit with earth, that heaved for several days since there were people underneath who were still alive. Several Ukrainian auxiliary policemen were left to guard the mass grave.

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