Murder Story of Boremel Jews on the Styr River Bank in Boremel

Apparently in late September or early October 1942, the members of the Judenrat were shot dead by the Germans for allegedly failing to comply with the German demand to collect gold and valuable items from the ghetto. The victims were killed at the Volkovnya tract, near the bank of the Styr River. Most probably in October, upon the orders of Shlitter, the commandant of the town of Boremel, the last Jewish inmates of the ghetto, numbering about 700, were taken by truck, guarded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and gendarmes (members of the German rural order police), to the same murder site. Upon their arrival, the Jews had to strip naked, and were then shot dead by the gendarmes (or by Gestapo officers, according to the ChGK document) with machine guns. The ChGK report also states that, during the murder operation, the little children were buried alive, along with their murdered mothers.