at some stage in 1943, when there were only about 900 jews left, working at local makeshift "work camps" for a few days, groups of 100 and 200 jews were marched to the town cemetery nearby and shot. the sounds were heard well in the town, and one woman testified that her mother, who was then at the age of 40, felt obliged to drown out the sound with an old pedal powered sewing machine.