On February 17, 1942 (in late autumn 1941, according to eyewitnesses) about 60 Jews, mostly old people, women, and children, from Kurman-Kemelchi, as well as Jews brought from surrounding kolkhozes, were assembled in the abandoned building of a prewar printing house on present-day Engels Street (today the building houses a charitable organization). The Jews were held for several days and then taken by cart to the area of the brickworks. There they were made to stand at the edge of the clay pit or of a nearby anti-tank trench and shot. The murder was perpetrated by an as yet unidentified SS unit.

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