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On November 5-6 (according to some sources 7-8), 1941, with the assistance of local auxiliary police, the Einsatzkommando 8b and probably some units of Police Battalion 316 took the Jews from their homes in the ghetto and drove them in columns along the streets to the yard of a two-storey wooden building surrounded by a wooden fence (according to some sources, this was an oil factory building). There the selection process took place – the Germans separated the men from the women and children, and also selected professionals – tailors, shoemakers, etc. The latter asked that their spouses and children join them, which was granted. They were taken away from the yard and, according to some sources, by performing certain jobs for the Germans, remained alive in ghetto for several months. The rest were put on numerous tent-covered trucks and brought to the village of Kamenka. There they were ordered to undress, brought to the edge of the pits and shot.
The number of victims of this massacre varies between 5,281, according to German sources, and 10,000, according to Jewish and Soviet sources. At the end of 1943, in the face of the Soviet advance, the Germans dug up the bodies and burned them.