The "Action" started on 2 February [1943] in the morning and lasted two days. About 3,600 people were dragged out of their houses and shelters, herded to the gulley by the woods, where a 16 m long and 4 m deep grave had already been dug out. The victims had to undress themselves and stand on a board placed across the ditch; they were shot in the back of the head, so their bodies would fall straight into the ditch, sometimes they were still alive. A municipal water reservoir was situated near that mass grave |