Jewish women from the Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine, which held roughly 1,700 Jews. Some are holding infants as they are forced to wait in a line before their execution by Germans and Ukrainian collaborators. Below: A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after the mass execution.

(Photo credits: Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives)

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