In late September 1942, two German officers, accompanied by a local interpreter, entered the village orphanage. It was a shelter for Jewish children who had been evacuated from the nearby area and from orphanage # 6 in Odessa. The German officers and the interpreter questioned the director as to which orphans were Jewish, consulting a list that they had. Afterward, forty children were taken into a room, and the Germans asked them about their backgrounds, trying to determine which of the children had Jewish parents. The Germans selected eleven children and forced them into a gas van. The deputy director of the orphanage was also forced into the van, along with her family. The van then set out in the direction of Armavir. Thus, the Germans gassed a total of fifteen people to death.

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In August 1942 a group of Jewish families, about 40 people, tried to escape from the Germans. The Germans caught the Jews and took them back to Otradnaya. On the next day these Jews were transported to the village of Sovetskaya. According to witnesses, the families were held there for three days without food or water. On the fourth day the Germans took them in a gas van toward the city of Armavir. In Armavir their dead bodies were thrown into an anti-tank trench and buried with other victims from Armavir and the surrounding area.

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The Germans caught and arrested several Jewish families during the first days of October 1942. Until October 10, 1942 they were held in a storage depot at the market in Otradnaya. On the same day the Germans told the Jews that they were going to be relocated to other areas of the county. The Germans loaded the Jews into two Gestapo vans and drove them to the bank of the Urup River. The Gestapo men took all the valuables and possessions of the Jews and shot them to death. The bodies were thrown into a prepared pit. After the liberation of Otradnaya 483 bodies were found there.

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