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Wydranica Forest

Apparently in September 1942, at dawn, Ukrainian auxiliary police and probably several Gendarmerie (German rural order police) men drove the Jews from their houses onto the street and took them to the nearby forest. Upon arriving at the murder site, the Jews were made to strip naked and forced inside a prepared pit, where they were shot to death by the Gendarmerie men. According to one testimony, the village elder also participated in the shooting. After the shooting the clothes of the victims were carried off, while Wydranica village residents covered the pit with earth.

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