Murder Story of Uscilug Jews in Piatydni

On September 1, 1942, a unit of the Security Police and SD from Łuck, assisted by the Gendarmerie and Ukrainian auxiliary police, surrounded the ghetto of Uściług. They loaded its inmates onto trucks and took them to the ghetto in the city of Włodzimierz Wołyński and from there, along with the Jews of the town, they were taken near the village of Piatydni, where three large pits had been prepared. Upon their arrival at the murder site, the Jews were made to strip naked and forced in groups into the pit. Then, while lying face down, they were shot to death in the back of the head with machine-guns by an SD unit (and some Gendarmerie men). Then another group had to lie down on top of the dead bodies and, in turn, was shot to death. The trucks with new victims shuttled back and forth [to and from the murder site] during the following days. This murder operation ended on September 15, 1942.