Shortly after the occupation of Horodec, a small number of Jews were murdered by the Germans in the town and its vicinity. Thus, according to some sources, at least two Jews were murdered in an orchard behind the residence of a Jewish family.
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David Voliniets, who was born in Horodec in 1918 and visited the town after the war, related:
I have to give a short list of the Jews murdered in Horodec and its vicinity: Moshe-Dov Kuperiansky, my uncle, may his soul rest in peace. He and his family used to live in the village of Chelishchevichi, 10 km from Horodec. They ran a store over there. Shortly after the occupation, the Germans ordered them to turn over their only son, who was in the fields at the time. When they found him, they killed both Moshe-Dov and his son.
Eliyahu Lyakhovitsky, the son of Aaron-David, was murdered in Horodec immediately [after the occupation]. They [the Germans] ordered Rabbi Chaim-Nissan Vinograd to look for his son Avraham right away. When he was found, they acted in the same manner. The fate of the miller Moshe-Dov and of Gutman, a motorist from Vladov, was similar. Both of them were murdered in the orchard behind Chayim Vinograd's house.... I learned all these [facts] from some Christian residents of Horodec whom I met in July 1946, in the course of the two days I spent in the town. I could not bear to stay there any longer….
A. Ben-Ezra, ed., Horodec: History of a village (1142-1942) (New York, 1949), p. 193 (in Yiddish)