On November 30, 1942 the two ghettos were surrounded by Ukrainian and Lithuanian auxiliary policemen, as well as SS-men and members of the Gendarmerie. According to one testimony, the ghetto's residents were told that they were going to be taken outside the city to shovel snow. They were loaded onto trucks with their possessions and taken to Leznevo village, which was located east of Proskurov (the village doesn't exist anymore; it became part of the city). According to another testimony, upon their arrival at the site, the Jews were taken to a shed on the territory of a fruit-drying factory and forced to strip naked. Then they were taken to nearby pits that had been prepared in advance by Soviet POWs. Near these pits they were lined up and forced to hand over their valuables, gold teeth, etc. The victims were forced into the pit and shot to death in the back of the head with submachine-guns by the Ukrainian policemen and SS-men. The adults and teenagers were shot to death separately from the children. Apparently this murder operation lasted more than a week, during which time the Jewish prisoners from Proskurov and Leznevo labor camps were shot to death at this site as well.

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On November 4, 1941, in the morning, after the skilled laborers left the ghetto for work, their families who had been left behind, along with other inmates of the ghetto – mainly old people and children -- were surrounded by SS-men and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen. They were driven out of their homes and told that they would be resettled in Kamenets-Podolsk. After being collected, the Jews were taken on foot to the weaving factory on Kamenetskaya Street. Those who tried to escape on the way to the factory were shot to death. Inside the factory the Jews had to hand over their documents, valuables, and other possessions and were forced to undress. Then they were driven on foot to the old slaughterhouse dump on the city's outskirts, near Ruzhichnoye village, south of the city. On their way to the site the Jews, including women, little children, and old people, were severely beaten. Upon their arrival the victims were lined up in groups near the edge of pits that had been prepared beforehand and then shot to death with machine-guns in the back of the head or neck. The shooting was carried out by members of a cavalry unit of the German Order Police and members of the Reich labor service. According to one testimony, after this murder operation 20 Jews who had papers testifying that they were working for the Germans were left alive. According to German sources, 3,000 or, according to the ChGK, 5,300 victims were shot to death. After the murder operation the local Ukrainian population looted Jewish property.

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