On September 6, 1941, Einsatzkommando 12a, under the command of Walter Kehrer (an ethnic German who had escaped to Germany from the USSR in 1930), came to the village of Yagorlyk. The Germans ordered the head of the rural council to round up all the Jews remaining in the village, along with the Communist Party members, and bring them to the premises of the former collective farm administration. The newly appointed Romanian authorities of Yagorlyk informed the Jews that they would be transported to Palestine. A total of forty-one people were rounded up and handed over to the Germans: forty Jews (including children and elderly individuals) and one local Ukrainian Communist. That same day, they were all taken out of the collective farm premises and escorted by members of Einsatzkommando 12 to an anti-tank trench outside the village. Upon reaching the murder site, the victims were positioned in groups on the lip of the trench and shot dead with rifles and machine guns. A Moldovan woman from the village of Doybany was executed along with them. After the shooting, local residents were ordered to cover the bodies of the victims.

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