The surviving Jews of Druzhkovka – mostly women, children, and elderly people – were shot in a number of murder operations from February 1, 1942 until May 1, 1943. Apparently, they were killed together with non-Jewish locals. According to Soviet documents, 135 Jewish families were murdered during this period. The victims would be taken by truck, in groups of 15-20, to the area of the slag waste deposit near the Toretsky and the Boltovky factories in Druzhkovka. There, the people were shot, and the pits were later blown up. As a result, the bodies of the victims were almost impossible to identify after the liberation of the town.

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