On July 15th local authorities posted notices all over the town ordering all Jewish men to report to the police station on the next morning for registration. Since only a few of them reported, a search was conducted during which 300 men were caught and assembled at the collection point. During the selection that was carried out several men - mainly craftsmen and artisans - were released. After their documents had been burned, the rest were loaded onto trucks and driven to the slaughterhouse located outside the town. Upon their arrival, they were stripped naked and taken to pits that had been prepared beforehand. The Germans made the Jews perform gymnastic exercises until they were exhausted, and then they shot them to death. According to one testimony during the execution one Jew attacked a German policeman but he was killed on the spot. This murder operation was probably carried out by the 2nd Company of the 314th Police Battalion.

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On September 3, 1942, early in the morning, several Germans and several hundred Ukrainian auxiliary policemen surrounded the ghetto. They collected its inmates at an assembly point and then marched them to a sand quarry near the southwestern edge of Mielnica. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews had to strip naked and were forced in groups into the pits, where they were shot to death, apparently by a Gendarmerie (German rural order police) unit. According to one testimony, after the shooting local Ukrainian residents looted the Jewish houses in the town.

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