In late autumn 1941 and over the course of 1942, groups of Jews from Gomel, of all ages and both sexes, who had been held in the city prison, were taken by truck out of the Novo-Belitsa neighborhood and shot in pits 9 kilometers from Gomel, on the road to Chernigov. The perpetrators of these massacres were members of a detachment of Einsatzkommando 8, commanded by Wilhelm Schultz, and local auxiliary policemen. The dates of the massacres and the number of Jews murdered in them are not known.

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Early in the morning of November 3 or 4, 1941, local auxliary policemen and members of a unit of Einsatzkommando 8, under the command of Wilhelm Schultz, surrounded all three ghettos of Gomel and began to drive their Jewish inmates out of their homes. The Jews were humiliated and severely beaten, and some of them were killed. The ghetto inmates were then taken to the city prison. The next day, they were transported by truck to the village of Leshchinets, southwest of Gomel (the village has since been incorporated into the city). There, they were forced to undress and lie face-down in an anti-tank trench near a machine-tractor station. Then they were shot. The total number of victims of this massacre, which lasted for eight hours, was about 2,000.

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According to testimonies, some of Gomel's Jews were murdered on Budyonnyi Street (present-day Barykin Street, where a metal factory is now located). Neither the date of the murder nor the number of victims is known.

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In 1941-1942, inmates of the local jail, including many Jews, were murdered in a forest near the village of Davydovka, several kilometers southwest of the city, by members of a detachment (commanded by Wilhelm Schultz) of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B, local auxiliary policemen, and other German units.

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According to Soviet reports, Jews from Gomel were murdered near the military barracks at the 3rd (or the 6th, according to other Soviet reports) kilometer of the road leading from Gomel to Rechitsa. The victims were taken to this place by truck. The number of murdered Jews, and the date of the massacre, are unknown.

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