On the same day, the Ukrainian auxiliary policemen took other members of the group of 161 Jews (including women and children) to the outskirts of the town, where they were shot dead by a German murder squad at a pit behind the shed of the meat supply office. According to one eyewitness, some people managed to escape the shooting and went into hiding for several days. According to the same testimony, after the murder operation the victims were buried in a mass grave at the old Jewish cemetery in Chemerovtsy.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Chemerovtsy
…In late 1941 [sic], 161 people were shot dead at a site 200-300 meters from the town of Chemerovtsy, [near the machine tractor station], and also behind the shed of the meat supply office. The victims included women, men, and children…, mainly Jews….