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What is it meant by “or everybody was being killed” here?

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They, uh, cut down telephone wires and, uh, they made ambushes at times, dynamiting the roads, the, dynamiting also trains that went to the front. And, uh, in the very same token we helped Jews that were hiding in the woods, because there were Jewish young children, and also elderly people, women, that escaped, one in a family, that ran out of a probably ghetto that was either burning or everybody was being killed, and quite a few children. I mean, not, not in large numbers, no.

It means ‘they were either burning or being killed’. But the grammar is not great. Sounds like a typical German ww2 scenario….

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