In July 1942 the inmates of the ghetto, including people capable of work, as well as elderly people, women, and little children, were taken by Ukrainian auxiliary police to the forest near Manevtsy village, located southeast of Antoniny, and shot to death. Afterwards the graves were covered with earth. Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) Gerald Shefer was in charge of this murder operation.

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On September 21, 1942, which was Yom Kippur (in August, according to other sources), early in the morning German gendarmes and Ukrainian policemen from the town of Antoniny arrived in Kulchiny. All the Jews were driven out of the ghetto to the market square. They were told that they were being taken for work. Those unable to walk were loaded onto carts; the rest were formed into a column and all of them were taken to a forest near the village of Manevtsy, about 10 kilometers from Kulchiny. Those who tried to escape were shot on the spot. Some mothers tried in vain to save their children. At the murder site the Jews were locked into cowsheds and stables overnight. The next day the Jews were taken to a large pit (which some of the Jews had been forced to dig) and ordered to undress and enter the pit. Then they were shot. In about a month (or several days later, according to another source) the Jewish artisans who had been spared during the initial massacre were also taken to Manevtsy Forest and shot there. Estimates of the number of murder victims range from 150 to several hundred.

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In July 1942 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen arrived in the town and on the pretext of resettling them, collected at the town square all the Jews, mainly women, children, and elderly people, who had been incarcerated in the ghetto. Then they were taken on foot to the forest near the village of Manevtsy, about 15 kilometers north of Krasilov. Upon their arrival at the site, the Jews were ordered to strip naked. The men were made to dig three large pits and then the victims were forced to lie down in groups in the pits, where they were shot to death by the German unit. After each group was shot to death, it was covered with earth by the next group. Probably shortly afterwards, a group of Jewish craftsmen and artisans from Krasilov was shot to death in a third pit located in a field next to the forest. According to one account, Soviet POWs were also shot to death at the site. Apparently during the same month, Jews from Antoniny, Bazalya, Kuzmin, and nearby towns were murdered at the site as well.

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In July 1942 the Jews of Baziliya were driven by Ukrainian auxiliary police out of their homes in the ghetto, loaded onto trucks, and taken to the forest near Manevtsy village, located east of the town. They were shot to death there by a German unit. Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) Gerald Shefer was in charge of this murder operation.

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