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Meat Supply Office in Chemerovtsy

On the same day, the Ukrainian auxiliary policemen took other members of the group of 161 Jews (including women and children) to the outskirts of the town, where they were shot dead by a German murder squad at a pit behind the shed of the meat supply office. According to one eyewitness, some people managed to escape the shooting and went into hiding for several days. According to the same testimony, after the murder operation the victims were buried in a mass grave at the old Jewish cemetery in Chemerovtsy.

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Machine Tractor station in Chemerovtsy

One day in the late summer or early fall of 1941, Ukrainian auxiliary policemen took a number of Jews out of a group of 161, including women and children, to a pit near the machine tractor station, at a distance of some 300 meters from the town. There, they were shot dead by a German murder squad. According to one testimony, some people managed to escape the massacre, hiding for several days at a nearby fat-boiling site. The same testimony states that, after the murder operation, the victims were buried in a mass grave at the old Jewish cemetery in Chemerovtsy.

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Market Square in Chemerovtsy

On October 4, 1942, a group of eighteen (evidently Jewish) people from Chemerovtsy and the vicinity, who had apparently been found in hiding, were shot in the town's Market (Bazarnaya) Square. There were some children among the victims.

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