On March 30, 1942 (two days before Passover) SS and Gendarmerie men entered Dołhinów. With the assistance of the local police, they assembled the local Jews at the market square. Some Jews were killed by the police at this time. On the square the Germans conducted a "selection": they selected workers they considered useful and inprisoned them, with their families, in the ghetto. The rest of the Jews, numbering between 640 and 1,000, according to various sources, were taken under guard to a starch factory ("Krochmalnia") south of the town and close to the Jewish cemetery, where they were ordered to undress. After that, some of them were shot and their bodies thrown into an abandoned barn, which was then set on fire. Other victims were locked into the same barn and burned alive. The Germans ordered the Jewish council to collect the bodies and to bury them in mass graves.

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At the beginning of the occupation, around June 25, 1941, several dozen Jews were forced by SS men to take carts loaded with sacks of flour to the river. After finishing this task, the Jews were murdered on the bank of the Western Bug River. According to different testimonies, the number of the victims was reported as numbering from 29 to 40.

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The major part of the Domaczewo Jewish population was murdered in a large-scale operation on September 18 or, according to some sources, on September 20, 1942. About 250 Jews, apparently those who realized that they were going to be murdered, tried to escape to nearby villages and woods, but most of them were found by the Germans and tortured to death or shot on the spot. The Jews were made to line up and taken in groups of 30-50 people to a sand hill that was located half a kilometer south of the village. Prior to that, some ghetto prisoners had been forced to dig a large pit. There they were forced to strip naked and then were pushed into the pit, where they were placed face down in layers. Then the Germans threw grenades into the pit and shot those who were still alive. The children were thrown into the pit alive. The number of victims killed during this murder operation was 2,700. After the operation there remained some Jewish families who had built bunkers or had dug pits to hide in the area of the ghetto. They were found by the Germans and shot on the spot. During the shooting operation eleven Jews, eight men and three women, were taken from the murder site and left alive to provide services for the Germans. Among them were artisans, such as a tailor, a shoemaker, a tinsmith, and others. Apparently, they were shot later, although the exact date remains unknown.

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On April 29, 1942, the Security Police and SS who had arrived from Wilejka surrounded the ghetto and, on the next day, began to gather the Jews for a second "Aktion." Taught by bitter experience, many Jews of the Dołhinów ghetto had constructed sophisticated bunkers for themselves; some of them were two- and even three-storeys deep. Many others tried to escape to the forests. The Germans took more than 1,000 Jews under guard east of the town and shot them. Several hundred skilled workers remained in the ghetto. Those workers were killed on May 21, 1942.

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