On the night of October 12-13, 1942, the German Gendarmerie (rural Order Police) and Ukrainian Auxiliary Police surrounded the ghetto and brutally drove its inmates out of their homes. Those who resisted were killed on the spot. The German forces also burned down several houses that the Jews refused to vacate. The remaining Jews, some 1,500-1,700 people, were assembled in a square near the Railway Gymnasium, on Adam Mickiewicz Street (or Sadovaya Street, according to another testimony), where the women with the children were separated from the men. Then, after handing over all their documents and valuables, the Jews were transported in trucks, in several groups, to the killing site near the village of Stary Mylsk. Upon reaching the site, the Jews had to strip naked and lie face down in the pit, whereupon they were shot in the back of the head or the neck. The shooters were members of the Security Police and SD squad from Równe, along with some gendarmes from Zdołbunów, and they used machine guns. Those victims who had been merely wounded, and were trying to get out of the pit, were finished off by the Germans on the spot. As soon as one group of people was shot dead, another group would be positioned on top of them and shot in the same manner. Ukrainian auxiliary policemen guarded the murder site, to prevent the victims from escaping. After the massacre, the victims, some of them still alive, were covered with earth. The possessions of the murdered people were taken back to Zdołbunów, where the lower-quality items were sold off to the locals, while the choicest articles were either shipped to Germany or appropriated by the Germans themselves. According to a testimony, in the weeks following this murder operation some Jews who had been caught hiding were killed at the same site. The district commissar, Hundertschaftsführer Georg Marschall, was in charge of this murder operation.

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