Murder story of Łokacze Jews in the Łokacze Area

On September 8 (or, according to another source, 13), 1942, several days before the start of the Jewish High Holidays, the German Gendarmerie and the Ukrainian auxiliary police surrounded the ghetto and the area where the remaining Jewish craftsmen lived. According to one testimony, many Jews went into hiding or tried to flee, and some burned their last possessions to prevent them from falling into the hands of their murderers. Then the ghetto was emptied, with its inmates being taken outside of town, to an open field, where they were shot to death by a German unit. The bodies were thrown into a large pit that had been prepared in advance.