In the days after the murder of the Jews of Zdołbunów, some Jews who had been caught hiding were first taken to the prison in the Gendarmerie building, and then transported in trucks to the Jewish cemetery, where they were shot dead.

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On August 7, 1941, based on lists drawn up by Zatvorskiy, the mayor of Zdołbunów, and Evgeniy Radziwill, chief of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, several hundred Jewish men (including most members of the Judenrat) – along with some Russians, Ukrainians, and Poles – were arrested and taken to a cellar in the town. After being held there for a brief while, the arrestees were transported in trucks to the quarry of the cement factory. According to one testimony, drunk Gestapo men beat the arrestees before the shooting; their valuables were confiscated. The shooting began at 4 PM. The people were ordered to strip naked, and then, with their hands tied to their backs with wire, they were forced to descend into the pit via stairs that had been carved inside it, and shot dead in the back of the head. The shooting was carried out by a detachment of the Security Police and SD unit (from Einsatzgruppe C) that was based in Równe. Ukrainian auxiliary policemen also took part in the shooting. After the victims had been shot, their clothes were taken away by Germans and Ukrainian policemen. In August 1942, two Ukrainian policemen brutally killed an 18-year-old girl, Hanka Prussak, who had been caught sitting on the bench in front of her house in the ghetto after the curfew. Subsequently, in an attempt to improve the reputation of the local Ukrainian police, the Gebietskommissar claimed that the girl had been killed by a Jew, and demanded that the Judenrat either hand over the "killer" or surrender ten hostages. Attempts by the Judenrat to bargain their way out of this demand were unsuccessful. Since it was impossible to find the "Jewish murderer", the Judenrat had no choice but to select ten elderly male and female Jews as hostages. Eventually, seven of them were placed under arrest and held at the Gendarmerie building in Zdołbunów. Following an order given by the Gebietskommissar, Georg Marschall, to Joseph Paur, district Gendarmerie chief of Zdołbunów, the arrestees were taken to the quarries of the cement factory. At this time, one Jew managed to escape. Upon reaching the murder site, the remaining six Jewish hostages were forced into the pit and ordered to lie face down inside it, whereupon they were shot in the back of the head by members of Zdołbunów's Gendarmerie post (headed by Wilhelm Wacker).

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