Murder story of Cherny Ostrov Jews in the Pavlikovetsky Forest

Early in the morning on Sabbath, September 12, 1942 – the eve of Rosh Hashanah – Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and some gendarmes surrounded the ghetto and drove its inmates out of their homes. After having been assembled, the Jews were taken in carts, under guard, into the Pavlikovetsky Forest, some sixteen kilometers southwest of the town, and shot dead in a nearby ravine. Anatoliy Gruzitskiy, the chief of the local Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, personally took part in this murder operation.