The ghetto in Małoryta was liquidated in a mass-murder operation in June-July 1942. Some sources put the date of the massacre at July 7 or 17, 1942. Early in the morning, the male ghetto inmates were rounded up and taken in groups to the murder site; some sources describe it as a small hill lying 1 kilometer northeast of Małoryta, near the Jewish cemetery and a brick factory. There, they were shot in groups of 10-15 at the edge of a pit, with the victims falling down into it after being wounded or killed. According to some sources, on the same evening the surviving ghetto inmates, mostly women and children, were rounded up and forced to spend the night sitting in the open air at a certain location. On the next morning, at about 4-5 AM, they were taken to the murder site, which was apparently the same location where the Jewish men had been shot. Some sources identify their murder site as Pieszczanka. They, too, were shot in groups at the edge of the pit. The wounded victims from each group would either be finished off with single bullets or shot together with the next group. According to Soviet reports, a total of about 900 Jews were murdered in this operation.

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