On May 15 (or in July, according to one testimony, or in the fall, according to post-war proceedings against the German perpetrators), 1942 about 800 Jews from Shpola, mostly women, children, and elderly people were forced into a concentration camp. The latter was located on the premises of a former orphanage (a Pioneer camp, according to other testimonies) in Daryevka Forest, southwest of Shpola. From the camp the victims were taken to a pit that had been dug near the camp and shot to death by members of the German rural and local auxiliary police.

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