Murder Story of Polonnoye Jews at the Poninka Railway Crossing

On June 25, 1942 a round up was carried out among the inmates of the ghetto. After leaving in the ghetto several skilled workers and professionals and several young Jewish men and women, the Germans, together with Ukrainian auxiliary policemen, took the rest of the ghetto's 750 inmates, mainly women and children, beyond the railway crossing located not far from the ghetto, near the road to the village of Poninka. The Jews were placed in groups at the edge of pits (which, according to one testimony, had been dug by Jewish men several days earlier), forced to take off their clothes, and shot to death, apparently by security police and an SD unit. According to one testimony, persons from mixed marriages were shot to death at the site as well. After the murder the clothes of the victims were taken to the town.