On August 19, 1941 German security forces shot to death 48 Jews, along with two Ukrainians, all of whom were considered Soviet activists, on the southern outskirts of the village, about 100 meters from the ruined Catholic church.

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In mid-August 1942 German and Ukrainian police surrounded the ghetto. Around this time, local residents were forced to dig a large pit outside the town. Some Jews managed to escape from the ghetto before the guard was increased, and others hid inside the ghetto. On the third day, August 15 or 16, the remaining Jews of Kisielin were taken from the ghetto, loaded in groups onto trucks by a Gestapo unit, and transported to the killing site located north-west of town, on the road leading to the village of Twerdynie. Upon their arrival at the site, the Jews were made to undress and then forced into the pit, where they were shot to death.

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