On November 21, 1941 about 100 Baryshevka Jews were collected, supposedly for registration, at the county auxiliary police station. From there they were taken on foot to the the western outskirts of the town, where before the war there had been a grease-producing cooperative near a leather-goods factory. There the Jews were forced to strip to their underwear. Then they were taken either one by one or in small groups to a pit. According to some testimonies it had been dug just before the massacre and, according to others, was already there before the war, when it had been used to store fuel barrels. The Jews were forced to kneel next to the pit and then were shot in the back of the head. The identity of the perpetrators of this massacre is not clear. They were either Wehrmacht soldiers from the local commandant’s office, members of Einsatzgruppe C, or German rural policemen.

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