On August 21, 1942, the Jews of Yaryshev of all ages and both sexes were driven out of their homes and collected in one place in the town. They were told they were going to be sent by rail to another place for work. Instead, they were taken toward the town cemetery just outside Yaryshev. There the able-bodied Jews were separated and sent to the Letichev labor camp in the Kamenets-Podolsk District, while the rest were shot to death at a ravine. The approximate number of victims of this massacre ranged from 200 (according to the report of the chief of the German rural police in the Bar district) to 600 (according to Soviet reports). The perpetrators of this massacre were German rural policemen from the Bar District, policemen from the Kamenets-Podolsk Security Police and Security Service station, and local auxiliary policemen.

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