On September 3, 1941, a German murder squad, most probably a detachment of Einsatzkommando 12, came to the village of Doybany from the town of Dubăsari. This unit was under the command of a German, who was apparently named Rein. Sometime prior to that, the German authorities sent a letter to Ignat Ceban, the headman of the village of Doybany I, instructing him to round up the Communists, the Soviet activists (individuals who had held official positions under the Soviet regime), and all the Jews (both permanent residents and temporary refugees) in Doybany I. All these individuals were to be assembled in the rural council building. When the German murder squad arrived in Doybany I, seven local Jews (including two children) had already been assembled at the rural council building. Shortly afterward, another ten Jews from Bessarabia, who happened to be in the village at the time, were brought there. The former Communists and Soviet activists were also gathered at the site. The Germans assembled these groups of people in the hall of the rural council. The Communists and Soviet activists were interrogated and severely beaten. By contrast, the Jews were not interrogated, but simply asked for their first and last names, and then immediately taken to an anti-tank trench on the outskirts of the village, where they were shot dead with machine guns (or rifles, according to one testimony). Afterward, the Communists and Soviet activists were taken to the same site to be executed. A total of twenty-seven people – ten non-Jews and seventeen Jews, including several Jewish children – were killed on that day. The bodies of all the victims were buried by local non-Jewish residents. The Germans forbade the locals to exhume the bodies from the trench. After the shooting, the Dubăsari prefectura (Romanian Gendarmerie) ordered the property of the Jewish victims to be brought to the premises of the Doybany I rural council. From there, it was taken to the headquarters of the Romanian Gendarmerie in Dubăsari.

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According to one testimony, on September 12 or 13, 1941, some members of the Rubinstein family, who had tried and failed to evacuate into the Soviet interior, were shot dead by Romanian troops on the outskirts of the village of Doybany. After the shooting, their bodies were covered with soil.

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