On September 22, 1941 Sonderkommando 10a of Einsatzgruppe D, together with German gendarmes and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, assembled 400 Jews of Berislav of all ages and both sexes at the German commandant's office on the central square of the town. The Jews were told that bread would be distributed to them. After being held at the square for several hours, the victims were driven on foot to a ravine near the municipal slaughterhouse, about 500 meters north of the town. There, after the Jews were forced to undress, they were taken in small groups to the ravine, where they were ordered to lie face down in two rows and then were shot in the back of the head. In early October 1941 about 35 Berislav Jews who had escaped the first massacre were shot at the same location. In their testimonies to a German court, given about 20 years after these events, German perpetrators apparently confused the massacres in Berislav and those on the Yurkino state farm when they erroneously referred to an empty well as the murder site of Berislav Jews.

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