From the first days of the occupation, the Germans announced their intention to isolate the Jews from the rest of the population of the region and the town. On several occasions, Jewish civilians were tortured, beaten, and taken away to the Borok Forest in the southern part of town. On December 30, 1941, 105 Jews from Glukhov were rounded up, arrested, and taken to the Borok Forest, where they were shot on that same day. The Germans murdered the Jews with the assistance of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, and the bodies were buried in huge pits. In November 1942, the German Feldgendarmerie and the local police arrested 700 people from all over the Glukhov County – including Jews, Soviet POWs, and Communists – and executed them in the same Borok Forest.

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