On May 29 [or May 30, according to other sources], 1942, a squad of the Gendarmerie from Glębokie arrived in Parafianów. These Germans were assisted by the local auxiliary police. At 9 AM, the police surrounded the ghetto and ordered the Jews to assemble in their best clothes and bring out all their money and valuables. The Germans and policemen locked the ghetto inmates at the local fire station, and then led them northwest of the town, across the railway tracks, to the town's garbage dump, where pits had been dug in advance. Upon reaching the murder site, the Germans initially ordered the Jews to deepen the pits; then they shot them. In the following days, the police continued to hunt for Jewish survivors who had managed to flee the ghetto or the murder site, and kill them. A total of 250-600 people (the figure varies depending on the source) were killed in those days. The high death toll suggests that, apart from the Jews of Parafianów, Jews from nearby villages were also targeted in this operation.

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