My translator, driver, and I were brought along a long and unmarked path to the mass grave by two elderly Ukrainians whom we happened to run into as we were searching for the site. Both had witnessed the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto and execution of the city's Jews.

This is the forested path walked by Shumsk's Jews from the ghetto to their death on the outskirts of town in 1942. It was paved when a memorial was established at the execution site several years ago.

This is the site where 2432 Jews were slaughtered at the edge of large pits, beginning with the rabbi. This man witnessed the events from the fields adjacent to the site. He stated that, once covered, the pits rumbled with the movement of those who were still living for almost two weeks.

The memorial erected to the dead at the execution site is badly overgrown.

A memorial stone in Ukrainian and Hebrew was created several years ago.