According to one testimony, on May 26, 1942, at night, a mobile SS unit from Równe, together with Gendarmerie (German rural order police) and Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, broke into the ghetto where the unskilled Jews were incarcerated. They began to drive the Jews out of their houses. Handicapped, very sick, and old people were shot to death on the spot. About 4,000 Jews – men, women, and children -- were collected at the square located on Sholem Aleichem Street, near the entrance to the ghetto. The assembled Jews were divided into two groups - men separately and women and children separately. Then the men were loaded onto trucks and taken to Szibiena Hura, a hill with a ravine below it, located 4 kilometers west of Dubno, near the village of Kleszczycha. Upon their arrival at the shooting site, the Jewish men were made to strip naked and, in groups of 10, forced to lie facedown inside a pit that had been dug beforehand. They were shot to death in the back of the head or in the back by the SS murder squad. Then another group of victims was placed on top of the bodies and shot to death. After each shooting, the Germans poured lime over the bodies. During the two days of the murder operation (May 26-27), trucks shuttled back and forth -- to take victims to be shot and then to take their clothes to Dubno, where Jewish workers from the skilled workers' ghetto were forced to search the victims' clothes and shoes for gold and other valuables. The most valuable items were shipped to Germany. On October 24, 1942, there took place the killing of the several dozen remaining professionals (along with their families) despite their "secure" certificates. These inmates of the skilled workers' ghetto were collected on Rybnaia Street and taken by truck to Szibiena Hura. Upon their arrival at the murder site, they were forced to undress and to lie facedown in groups in pits, where they were shot to death in the back of the head. This shooting was carried out with machine-guns and pistols. Once again the Germans confiscated the clothing of their victims. According to the ChGK document, during these two murder operations, Hungarian forces joined the German ones in carrying out the shootings. Gebietskommissar (regional commissar) of Dubno Werner Brocks and the head of the Dubno Gendarmerie Papke both headed and participated in those two murder operations.

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