On the morning of September 2, 1941 1,275 Jews of the town, including many women and children, were loaded onto trucks and taken deep into the forest near the Polonnoye train station, located three kilometers from the town. When they arrived the site was surrounded by Ukrainian policemen and the Jews were made to strip naked, taken to the edge of the pit, and then shot to death, apparently by members of the 45th Reserve Order Police Battalion that had been brought from Shepetovka.

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