In 1942, apparently in early December, a large group of Jewish prisoners of war who had been held in Slavuta's Grosslazarett/Stalag 301Z, POW camp, was taken from the cellars in several military barracks where they had been isolated and, under the close guard of members of the SS and the security police and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, were taken to a trench located in the southern part of the camp at the edge of a nearby pine forest. According to one testimony, the victims were placed in groups of 20 along the length of the trench and, on the order of an SS officer, were shot to death in the head with machine-guns by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen. Non-Jewish prisoners of war witnessed this shooting.

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On March 2, 1942 the Jews from the Annopol ghetto and on March 4 the remaining Jews from Kilikiyev, Krasnostav (?), and the Berezdov ghetto were taken to the just established ghetto of Slavuta. Each time, upon their arrival at the ghetto in the evening, the Jews were taken inside in groups by Gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and a selection was carried out. The guards who were stationed at the gates attacked the old and handicapped people and shot them to death in the cellar of a former homestead that was located near the entrance to the ghetto, while others were shot to death near the cellar, not far from the former Pioneer clubhouse and their bodies were thrown into the cellar. Their belongings and valuables were taken. The remaining Jews were ordered to hand over their valuables and, according to one testimony, people had their gold teeth knocked out. Apparently Dr. Worbs, Gebebietkommissar of Shepetovka, was present on this occasion.

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Sometime after the Jews of Slavuta town and Slavuta County were confined in the ghetto in early March 1942 many young Jewish children fell ill. The Germans, apparently fearing an epidemic, took about 300 children (including many infants) from their mothers and threw them into a well located near the entrance to the ghetto.

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On the morning of June 25 or 26, 1942 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen drove the inmates of the ghetto, mainly women, children, and elderly people out of their homes and loaded them onto several trucks. Then, guarded by Ukrainian policemen and Gendarmerie men, the Jews were taken to the water tower in the Slavuta POW camp, where several pits had been prepared. Upon their arrival they were ordered to get off the trucks and to strip naked. Those who refused to undress were beaten and their clothes were ripped off. The victims were ordered to enter the pit in groups of three and to lie face down, and then were shot to death in the back of the head. Some children were buried alive. Yakov Kosovich, the head of the Slavuta Ukrainian auxiliary police, and a man from a German security police murder squad carried out the shooting, that lasted from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. After the shooting workers from the Slavuta porcelain factory were forced by the Ukrainian auxiliary police to cover the pits with earth. Dr. Worbs, the Gebebietkommissar of Shepetovka,(Slavuta was part of Shepetovka County) was in charge of this murder operation.

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At the very end of June 1942, after the liquidation of the Slavuta ghetto, 13 Jews (including the well-known doctor Y. Harmats and his family) who had been caught in hiding in the town, were arrested, abused, and forced to hand over to the Germans the valuables in their possession. Then they were taken, apparently guarded by members of the Gendarmerie, to a copse of trees near the school on Tsvitoskaya Street where a pit had been prepared, made to strip naked, and then shot to death by a single member of either the Gendarmerie or the security police.

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