In late August 1941, the Jewish men of Verkhovnya, most of whom were probably elderly, were rounded up by a German punitive squad and taken to the local pharmacy. There, they were forced to strip naked and humiliated. Afterward, they were taken to the nearby ice cellar, where they were shot dead. According to German sources, the shooting was carried out around August 26, 1941. The same sources assert that eight Jews were shot in that operation.

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