Novaya Ushitsa Old Jewish Cemetery
Apparently during the first months of the German occupation of Novaya Ushitsa a number of Jews, including the local rabbi, were shot to death and buried at the old Jewish cemetery.
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Trikhov Forest
On the morning of August 20, 1942 the Jews were driven from their houses in the ghetto, collected at the town's square, having been told to take their belongings with them on the pretext that they would be taken to Palestine. A selection was carried out during which the craftsmen with their families were told to go home. A group of young women and men was sent to perform road work at the Letichev labor camp. The remaining Jews, under the guard of Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, were taken westward from the town to the Trikhov Forest, located near Kucha village, where two large pits had been prepared. The Jews were made to strip naked, lie face down in groups of 10 in one of the pits, and were then shot to death with sub-machineguns by members of the SD and the gendarmerie. The pits were covered with lime. Shtefen, Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) of Bar, was in charge of the operation. According to the German report of August 20, 1942 of Petrich, the district gendarmerie chief of Bar, 707 Jews from Novaya Ushitsa were murdered.
In October 1942 the Novaya Ushitsa ghetto was surrounded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and Germans. In the morning a group of skilled Jews and their families, who had been kept alive until in the ghetto, was ordered to leave their houses. They were taken to be shot at the same site, in two big pits that had been prepared there. According to a Soviet (ChGK) report from 1944 2,620 Jews from Novaya Ushitsa and the surrounding villages were shot to death in these two murder operations.
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Canning Factory in Novaya Ushitsa
According to one testimony, apparently in November or December 1942, the Jews who were still in hiding after the two murder operations but were then found were imprisoned. Several days later, at dawn, they were taken by Ukrainian policemen, headed by an SS man, to pits near a canning factory and shot to death.
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