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Kutki

In the early morning of March 4, 1942 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen went through Jewish houses and drove about 35 Jews (mainly women and several old men) out of their homes. After being collected at the local school building and ordered to take with them personal belongings and valuables, they were taken on carts, apparently under the guard of members of the Gendarmerie (rural order police) and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen 1.5 kilometers outside of town to a field near the village of Kutki, on the bank of the Korchik River. On their arrival at the site they were shot to death, apparently by members of the Gendarmerie and, according to some testimonies, by at least one Ukrainian policeman.

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Kilikiyev Jewish Cemetery

Apparently in early August (or, according to one testimony, in early September) 1941 the members of an SS murder squad surrounded the town and, with the assistance of Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, drove a group of approximately 45 Jewish men - Communists and members of the Komsomol, along with several Ukrainian men, out of their homes. They were collected at the local school building and locked up for the night in a shed at the school. The next day, early in the morning, they were taken by truck toward Piddybtsi village, to a field close to the Jewish cemetery of the town. Upon their arrival at the site they were made to dig a pit and then were shot to death with rifles and sub-machine guns by the members of the 1st SS Motorized Infantry Brigade. Ukrainian policemen covered the bodies with earth. The clothes and personal belongings of the victims were taken and then collected by Ukrainian policemen in an empty house in the town.

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