Suchodolie Grove
In the early morning of May 29, 1942 a detachment of the Security Police and SD, assisted by men of the 1st Company of Reserve Police Battalion 33, local Gendarmerie (German rural order police) and Ukrainian auxiliary police had surrounded the both sections of the ghetto, putting a heavy guard on its "unproductive" section. Then the German-led forces broke into this part of the ghetto, and drove its inmates, while ordering them to take with them the most needed items, to the collection point situated in the yard of the Great synagogue inside the ghetto (or according to some testimonies to the main square of the ghetto). Those unable to walk, mainly sick and elderly, or those who attempted to escape, were shot to death on the spot and their bodies were loaded onto carts that had been waiting nearby. Then the Jewish men who had been rounded up in rows, were taken, on foot, under the guard, 2 kilometers south-east of the town, to a grove at the sandy place known as Suchodolie, located near the village of Levyatin. With their arrival to the shooting site, the Germans forced the men to undress, to get in groups inside the pits that had been prepared in advance by Soviet prisoners of war, to lie there with their face down and shot them with machine guns. Afterwards the victims were covered with earth. Then Germans did the same with the women and children whom they brought to the site several hours later. Altogether, according to the ChGK document, about 1,350 people were shot to death during this murder operation. A number of Jews managed to escape and hide on the eve of this murder operation. After the end of the murder operation, the inmates of "useful" part of the ghetto were driven to its liquidated part to sort the belongings of the murdered.
German local officials, including the Radziwiłłów landwirte (local German senior official) Blumenreder, along with the Security police men, the mayor of Radziwiłłow Anton Matejko and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen headed by Misza Zalewski were directly in charge and took part in this killing operation.
In the morning of October 6, 1942 Security Police unit subordinated to the outpost in the city of Równe, assisted by Ukrainian auxiliary police, had encircled the "productive" part of the ghetto. A number of Jews, including some doctors and pharmacists, committed suicide, while others went to their hiding places or tried to escape. The rest, about 1,600 ghetto inmates - women, men and children, under the guard of the Gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliary police, were taken out to the Suchodolie killing site, towards the pits that had been prepared in advance and shot there to death by a Security Police unit.
More information: Yad Vashem