In late June 1942 German rural police (gendarmerie), an SD unit, and Ukrainian auxiliary police surrounded Orinin and ordered the Jewish council elder to assemble all the Jews at the town square. About 250 skilled workers were selected and transferred to the Kamenets-Podolsk ghetto. The remaining Jews, mainly women, children, and elderly people, guarded by Ukrainian policemen, were taken northeast of town, near the village of Zherdya, where two large pits had been prepared by local collective farmers. After being forced to strip naked, in groups of 10, the victims were forced to stand on boards laid across the pits and were shot to death there. According to Soviet documents, about 2,000 people were killed. Although this number appears to be exaggerated, it may include Jewish refugees and Jews from the surrounding area. After the shooting collective farmers were made to cover the pits.

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