According to some testimonies, at the end of January 1942 several Jewish families were thrown alive by Germans through the ice into the Dnieper River.

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During the night between October 12 and 13, 1941, which was the Jewish Simchat Torah holiday, Germans ordered all the Jews of Dnepropetrovsk to assemble at the department store on Karl-Marx Street. The assembled Jews were told they were either going to be resettled in a ghetto or be sent to Palestine. The Jews were robbed of all their belongings, lined up in columns, and led along Karl Liebknecht Street toward the southern exit from the city. Just before the exit the column turned left toward the area of present-day Gagarin Park and the botaniccal gardens, to the Krasnopovstancheskaya Balka (Ravine), a huge 10-20 meter deep ravine that extended through the southeastern outskirts of the city. There, near the campus of the Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Transport Engineering the Jews were ordered to undress. Then, in small groups, they were pushed into the ravine and shot with submachine-guns. When some women with infants in their arms threw themselves into the ravine before the shots were fired, the executioners fired on them there. The murder of the Jews continued on October 14 and perhaps on October 15. The people who were not shot on the first day were left to await their fate in that location in the open. When the temperature at night fell below zero many of them froze to death. Many others had their feet frozen to the ground so that the next morning they had to be pried from the earth by strong men. The massacre was carried out by a special squad of the High SS and Police Leader "South," as well as by members of the 314th Order Police Battalion and local auxuliary policemen. The total number of Jews killed on this and the following day there, as well as near the Jewish cemetery, exceeded 10,000.

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Some of the Jews who were assembled on October 13, 1941 near the department store were taken along the Zaporozhye Road toward the Jewish cemetery several kilometers south of the city (today this is Pisarzhevskiy Park in the southern part of the city). The Jews were shot there at anti-tank trenches. The massacre was perpetrated by a special squad of Higher SS and Police Leader "South," as well as by members of the 314th Order Police Battalion and members of the local auxiliary police. The same place also apparently served as the site for later massacres of those Jews who had escaped the October 1941 massacre: in November 1941 Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C murdered more than 1,000 Jews of Dnepropetrovsk; in January-February 1942 Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C murdered 350 more Jews. According to Soviet reports, the shooting of "Soviet civilians" [i.e., they were not identified as Jews] continued until the end of the German occupation. The people were usually taken to the anti-tank trenches by truck, divided into groups, placed at the edge of the trenches, and then shot with sub-machine guns.

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Early in December 1941 the military commander of Dnepropetrovsk issued an order to all Jews to assemble at the commandant's office building. The Jews were told they were going to be resettled. Only 150 Jews appeared on the appointed day. They were taken to cliffs overlooking the Dnieper River and shot with machine-guns. The perpetrators of this massacre were apparently members of Sonderkommando "Plath",which was named after its commander, chief of the Kremenchug security police office, Karl Julius Plath, and were subordinate to the Higher SS and Police Leader "South."

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Early in December 1941 the military commander of Dnepropetrovsk ordered the Jews still living in the city to appear at the building of his office in order to be resettled. When only about 150 Jews appeared (they were then murdered on cliffs overlooking the Dnieper River, Germans and local auxiliary policemen were sent to drag the [other] Jews out of their houses. The Jews assembled in this way were taken to the Monastyrskiy Forest, five kilometers from the city and shot there, apparently by members of the Sonderkommando unit commanded by the chief of the Kremenchug security police office, Karl Julius Plath. The latter reported that his unit killed several thousand Jews.

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