In September 1942 Gendarmerie (rural order police) members and Ukrainian auxiliary police drove over 1,500 Jews, mainly women, children, and elderly people, out of the first ghetto and took them 4 kilometers northeast of the town to ravines near Zaletichevka village, where pits had been prepared. Upon their arrival the Jews were made to strip naked, enter the pit in groups, and lie face down next to each other. Afterwards they were shot to death in the back of the head with submachine-guns set up above the pit by members of an SS murder squad. The bodies of the victims were covered with clay. Several days later a group of about 40 Jews who had been found in hiding in the town were shot to death at the same site. In November a large group, apparently of skilled workers with their families, was taken from the second ghetto and shot to death by a German murder squad, at the same location. These two murder operations were carried out under the command of Lieutenant Gashe, the head of the Gendarmerie of the Letichev District. On January 30, 1943 the remaining Jews of Letichev were taken by Gendarmerie members and Ukrainian policemen, on the pretext of relocating them to another ghetto, to the same murder site. Upon their arrival the Jews were forced to strip naked or half naked, put their clothes in a pile, and enter the pit. Then they were shot to death by the SS murder squad from submachine guns set up above the pit. During the shooting some Jews tried to escape but they were shot to death. Regierungsrat Hammer (or Frieber, according to one testimony,) Gebeitskommisar of Letichev, was in charge of the killings at the site.

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In November 1942 200 Jewish workers from the labor camp were taken to a pit that had been prepared at the yard of the Dominican church. They were made to strip naked and lie face down in the pit, then they were shot to death with rifles in the back of the head by members of a Gendarmerie (rural order police) murder squad under the command of Lieutenant Gashe, the head of the Letichev District Gendarmerie.

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