According to one testimony, apparently in August 1942 the open ghetto in Ozierany was surrounded by Ukrainian auxiliary police and German urban order police (Schutzpolizei) from Kowel. Several hundred Jews, including many women and children, were loaded onto trucks and taken under guard by Ukrainian auxiliary police toward the village of Sushibaba. Upon their arrival at the abandonned clay pit near the village the victims were forced to deepen the pit and to strip naked. Then they were taken in groups of five to the pit, where they were shot to death with machine-guns by a murder squad of Kowel's urban order police, headed by Fritz Manthei. According to one testimony, Erich Kassner, Fritz Manthei, and Fyodor Shabatura, the chief of the Ukrainian auxiliary police, who were in charge of this murder operation, personally took part in the shooting. Ukrainian auxiliary policemen had guarded the murder site in order to prevent the victims from escaping. After their murder, the bodies of the Jews were covered over by residents of Ozierany, Sushibaba and other nearby villages. The belongings of those Jews who were shot to death were later sold in local stores.

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