According to the testimony of one of the survivors, Betya Shekhtman, the majority of Tyvrov's Jews were murdered near the brewery outside the town in July 1941, a short time after the start of the occupation.
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Betya Shekhtman, who was born in 1924 and lived in Tyvrov during the war years, testified:
… In 1941, in July, the German occupiers occupied the town of Tyvrov, Vinnitsa District…2 weeks later the German villains surrounded Tyvrov on all sides and announced that all Jews, irrespective of age, had to gather at the synagogue. Whoever did not want to go to the gathering place was taken by force and shot. In this way the entire Jewish population, including the elderly, nursing infants, [and] women, was collected at the synagogue. Afterwards the people were loaded onto trucks and taken outside of town near the brewery, where there was an anti-tank trench. A German officer ordered everyone to strip, crying was heard, and women begged, pleading with an officer whose last name [nickname] was Baby Rops [?] not to shoot the children, but the pleading did not help. In conclusion the German gangsters shot with submachine-guns up to 2,000 people, including the children: 1.5 year-old Raya Aronovna Shprekher, 4 year-old Lyuba Samuilovna Levinzon, 8 month-old Manya Naumovna Kopika, [the elderly]: 60 year-old Sarra Grimberg [sic], 82year-old Ikhil Khasman, 85 year-old Basya Tkach, and many others….