Early in the morning of August 25 (or September 25, according to other sources), 1942, the Ludwipol Ghetto was surrounded by the German Gendarmerie (the German rural police, headed by Glanz) and the local Ukrainian Auxiliary Police (headed by Grisha Kot). A German official (variously identified as Franz Norgall, the German commissar of the town, or Hering, the town mayor), accompanied by the police force and members of the Judenrat, went from house to house, ordering the Jews to assemble at a single spot in the ghetto. Once the Jews had been gathered at the assembly point, they were marched in groups, under an escort of gendarmes and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, out of the town toward the former Polish Army barracks across the Słucz River. Upon reaching the murder site, the Jews were kept there for the rest of the day. According to a testimony, by nightfall some youngsters had managed to escape by breaking through the fence. The next morning, more than 1,000 Jews – men, women, children, and elderly people – were led to the nearby pits that had been dug (by Jews and local Ukrainians and Poles) separately for the men and the women. At the shooting site, the victims were forced to strip naked, enter the pit in groups, and step onto planks. They were then machine-gunned by a squad of the Security Police and the SD from Równe. After the shooting, the victims (some of them still alive) were covered with earth. Franz Norgall, the German commissar (landwirte) of Ludwipol, was in charge of this murder operation.

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