On August 4, 1941, early in the morning, Jewish residents of the town were ordered to take shovels and other work tools with them on the pretext that they were going to be taken to work. Ukrainian auxiliary policemen drove the Jews onto the street and searched for those who were in hiding. After about 250 Jews from Kunev and the nearby village of Malyi Radohozh had been rounded up, a selection was carried during which some Jewish craftsmen and artisans were left alive. A large group of Jewish men was apparently the first to be taken to the Jewish cemetery located in the southern part of the town and made to dig pits. Then a group of women and some children was taken under guard to the same location. Upon their arrival the victims were forced to strip naked, taken in groups to the edge of the pit, and then shot to death with machine-guns by a 10th SS Infantry Regiment motorcycle platoon murder squad. Apparently some of the children were thrown alive into the pits. A German document indicates that 159 Jews were shot to death during this murder operation. Several Jews were kept alive to cover the bodies with earth.

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