Apparently on August 10, 1942 the Łanowce ghetto was sealed and surrounded by Gendarmerie (German rural order police) and Ukrainian auxiliary police. The Jews were not permitted to leave the ghetto for work. At this time the inmates of the ghetto heard rumors that large pits were being prepared and they became fearful, but only a few managed to escape. On August 14 members of the Gendarmerie and the Ukrainian auxiliary police, including members of the Schutzmannshafts-Battalion 102 based in the town of Krzemieniec, assisted by dogs, broke into the ghetto, forced the Jews into a column, and took them to two mass graves near the Jewish cemetery, which was located one kilometer from the town. According to one testimony, upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were forced to undress in the area of the brick factory located right in front of the Jewish cemetery. Then the men were first shot to death in one mass grave and then women and children in the other. The victims, in groups of five, were shot to death with machine-guns and pistols in the back of the head (or, according to another testimony, in the face). Each layer of bodies was covered with lime and earth. After the murder operation, the clothing and other belongings of the victims were taken to a store in town and, apparently, sold to local residents. This murder operation was organized by a detachment of the Security police and SD from Równe. According to a Security Police report 1,833 Jews (589 men, 783 women and 461 children) were shot in Łanowce that day. However, according to the ChGK report, a total of 2,535 people were shot to death (2,143 of them Jews). Richter, the Landwirte (senior German official) of Łanowce Region was in charge of this murder operation.

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According to one testimony, after the mass murder operation of Łanowce Jews on August 14, 1942, a group of 40 Jews was hiding in the home of a non-Jew, a peasant named Mentyuk. At some point someone informed the German authorities that Mentyuk was hiding these Jews in his home, and, as a result, the Germans caught those Jews, took them to the area of the former ghetto, and killed them there.

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