On August 18, 1942, a doctor of the local hospital, Rivka (Revekka) Mukhina, was shot in the hospital yard by a policeman, probably of Ukrainian origin, who was wearing a German uniform. According to some sources, the same day he shot 10-12 old Jews in a communal apartment building; they were patients of a hospital that was temporarily housed in the building.

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The Germans began to expel the local population from the occupied part of the town. During the eviction the Germans conducted a document check. If the papers identified their bearers as being of Jewish origin, they were immediately shot on the streets of Voronezh. Thus, several Jewish families, consisting mostly of women, children, and old people, were discovered and murdered near their homes, on Cheluskintsev Street and Sredne-Moskovskaya Street.

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In September 1942 several trucks took Voronezh residents from Khokhol village to Popov Ravine. The shooting victims numbered 77. According to documents found in the mass grave after the liberation some victims were Jews. The exact number of Jewish victims remains unknown.

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