Murder story of Stepań Jews in the Stepań Ghetto

On August 25 (or August 22 or 24), 1942, during the liquidation of the Stepań Ghetto, Gendarmerie chief Beckmann, his deputy Franz, and the landwirte (senior German official of the town) Gempel instructed the police to kill the elderly people and the small children, who could not walk, in the ghetto itself. Some of the inmates, who tried to escape from the ghetto, were shot on the spot, as well. Beckmann, Franz, and Gempel shot some of the victims with their own hands. Thus, according to the ChGK document, approximately 50 ghetto inmates were killed on the spot.