In the following eight days those who had succeeding in hiding during the mass murder operation of Poczajów's Jews were hunted down by the Gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliary police and handed over to the Germans who, after dividing the Jews into groups, took them to the Jewish cemetery located on the outskirts of Poczajów. After their arrival at the murder site that had been surrounded by the police, the Jews were ordered to dig several pits and to undress. After that, in groups of three, they were taken to the pit and shot to death with machine-guns by a German unit. According to a ChGK report, about 500 people – men, women, elderly people, and children -- were shot to death at the site. After the mass killing of the town's Jews, about 30 Jewish craftsmen were kept alive for various types of work, such as road construction. Apparently in October 1942, once they had finished their work, including the cleaning up of the former ghetto and the sorting of the victim's possessions, they were also shot to death at the Jewish cemetery.

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On August 5 (or September 7) 1942, several hundred Ukrainian auxiliary policemen arrived in Poczajów and remained there for several days. On Saturday, when all the ghetto inmates had returned from work, they sealed off the ghetto. When the Judenrat asked why noone was allowed to leave, they were told that it was in punishment for smuggling food into the ghetto. Several days later two vehicles containing several dozen men, under the command of the Security Police (Sipo) and the SD, arrived in town. The head of the Sipo ordered the Judenrat and Jewish policemen to come to the gate of the ghetto. He asked the Judenrat how many Jews were in the ghetto. The Judenrat and Jewish police then received the order to collect all the Jews at the ghetto gate. The Jewish inmates were ordered to take with them all their valuable possessions, since they were, supposedly, going to be relocated to some other place. Not all Jews came voluntarily and, therefore, members of Gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliary police drove people out of their homes, beating and killing those who refused to come. At the ghetto gate the men, women, and children were separated, and the sick were loaded onto trucks. After being lined up, the Jewish men, women, elderly people, and children, under the armed guard of Gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliary police, were taken on foot towards an anti-tank trench located behind the Polish cemetery, about 600 meters from the center of the town of Poczajów, on Lipovaya Street. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were ordered to undress. Then the Germans lined them up in groups and shot them with machine-guns and rifles in the back of the head. The little children were thrown alive into the anti-tank trench. Finally, a few grenades were thrown in to finish off any people who were only wounded. According to a German report, 794 Jews were shot to death (182 men, 374 women and 238 children) in the course of this murder operation. The ChGK document's assessment was that about 2,000 Jews were killed at that site.

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