According to testimonies of survivors, very soon after the start of the occupation of Zhabokrich by German and Romanian troops, around July 20, 1941 about 10-15 Jewish men were rounded up and locked into a barn on the Collective Farm Shlyakhom Lenina, together with Soviet prisoners of war. After being held for a day or two in the barn, all of them were shot at a pit that before the war was used to store potatoes. The perpetrators of this massacre were Romanian soldiers or policemen. According to other versions, the victims were shot in a cellar on the kolkhoz grounds or inside the barn where they had been locked up.

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On July 27, 1941 about 400 Zhabokrich Jews of all ages and both sexes were driven by Romanian soldiers or policemen into several cellars of houses and shops in the town of Zhabokrich. Initially the Romanians planned to burn the victims alive but later those inside were shot by machinegun, submachine-gun, and rifle fire through the openings of the cellars. The massacre continued until July 29, 1941. Only a few Jews who hid under the dead bodies or in corners of the cellars survived the massacre. After the massacre the bodies of the victims remained unburied for a long time. Eventually the survivors were forced to bury them in three mass-graves. According to some survivor testimonies, Jewish men and Soviet POWs were shot on the territory of the Shlyakhom Lenina collective farm; according to other testimonies, they were shot in one of the cellars in Zhabokrich on the first day of the massacre.

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