In June 1942 150 Jews of Pluzhnoye (and several Jewish craftsmen from the nearby town of Kunev), mainly women, children, and old people, were locked up in a former military barrack. After Ukrainian auxiliary policemen from the surrounding villages had gathered at the local Gendarmerie building, along with members of the Gendarmerie, the policemen forced the Jews from the barrack onto trucks and took them north of Pluzhnoye to a place where before the war underground military bunkers had been built near the village of Storoniche. On their arrival the Jews were surrounded by the Ukrainian policemen, who beat them and forced them into a pit that had been prepared. Members of the Gendarmerie, who were positioned in front of the victims, shot them to death with machineguns and rifles.

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