The District Commission found:

During October 1942, a group of 9 Germans, together with 20 [local] police officers, mass-murdered Soviet civilians, Jewish residents of the towns of Chernavchitsy and Volchin. The total count of victims: 497 people.

Among the dead were old men, women and children.

In preparation for moving to Vysokoye, before the executions, the perpetrators by deception obtained the valuables of the victims. Property and people who from exhaustion could not walk were placed on carts. The people and the carts were driven to a distance 200m from the village, Volchin, which became the site of a mass execution, in pits previously dug.

Before the execution were all ordered to strip naked in spite of the fact that among them were women and children. Those who resisted were beaten and thrown half-dead into the pit.

Germans held little children by the arm or leg, and shot them at close range in front of the others, who were waiting for their own death.

Destroing all of them, the killers took their property, and the the victims was buried in a common grave.